Parliament is asking tough questions about whether taxpayers are getting value for money
New Zealand is spending nearly $190 billion this year, but outcomes remain elusive, Roger Partridge writes. Photo / Mark Mitchell
THE FACTS
This year, the Government will spend nearly $190 billion. Yet we know remarkably little about whether those billions represent value-for-money.
The centrepiece of public sector performance is the Budget – a 700-page ledger of planned spending by department and programme. But it is not a performance report. It
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