Transmission Gully settlement agreement
9 November 2020: We have responded to correspondence about the Transmission Gully settlement agreement and concerns about a possible conflict of interest.
Recent announcements
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If the Auditor-General decides to carry out an inquiry, the Office won't normally have any comment to make until we release a report. It is hard to predict what might emerge or transpire as we carry out an inquiry so it is equally hard to predict when we might be ready to report our findings.
Transmission Gully settlement agreement
Our intentions: Understanding and managing the risks of a failure by a strategic supplier
9 November 2020: Public organisations often rely on third-party suppliers to provide goods and services to New Zealanders. Some suppliers provide highly specialised goods or services, with few or no other options available, and may have long-established relationships with the public organisations they are supplying. We call these "strategic suppliers".
Reviewing New Zealand’s preparedness to implement the Sustainable Development Goals
6 October 2020: In 2015, New Zealand and all other United Nations member nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Controller update on Government spending on Covid-19
17 September 2020: While carrying out our Controller work this year, we have been giving special attention to the Covid-19 spending. In this Update, we report on what has been approved, and what the Government has spent, on the Covid-19 response for the year ended 30 June 2020.
Our intentions: Looking at how the Wage Subsidy Scheme is managed
14 September 2020: The Government introduced a Wage Subsidy Scheme as one of its responses to Covid-19. To date, the Scheme has distributed about $13.7 billion.