Mentions of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise in New Zealand Parliament debates
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise has been mentioned in 82 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
General Debate 7 Sep 2011
LOUISE UPSTON ... been doing is putting in place things that will actually create more business in the long term with the initiative by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and the New Zealand 2011 Business Club. There is the Sika Show, which focuses on deer hunting; the inaugural Clean Energy ...
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 14 Jun 2011
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise
Hon MARYAN STREET I rise to speak on the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise financial review. This is a critical arm of our international experience, but it is also a critical arm of our economic ...
Hon DAVID CARTER It is a pleasure to follow that contribution from Maryan Street. First of all I say that New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is a complex beast; I fully agree with that. When I first got involved with the portfolio as the Acting Minister for ...
TODD McCLAY I am happy to take a call in this part of the debate on New Zealand Trade and Enterprise because, as with Mrs Street, I believe that it is a very important organisation with very hard-working people doing a ...
Education Amendment Bill (No 4)
In Committee 18 Aug 2011
Hon STEVEN JOYCE ... people is overly complicating the situation. So we have had a look at that, and we have said that rather than having New Zealand Trade and Enterprise do a chunk, the Education New Zealand Trust do a chunk, and the Ministry of Education do a chunk we will put those ...
First Reading 12 Apr 2011
GARETH HUGHES ... currently managing and promoting international education as a New Zealand export earner. We are talking about New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, the Ministry of Education, and the Education New Zealand Trust. Streamlining seems to be an ideological mantra often ...
Third Readings 7 Apr 2011
JONATHAN YOUNG ... of our nation be released more for business. Even this morning, as the select committee heard the financial review of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, its chief executive said that although we have enough market opportunity globally, we do not have enough companies of ...
Communications and Information Technology
Information and Communications Technology Delegation—Visit to China 28 Oct 2010
Hon STEVEN JOYCE ... in the delegation and the reception they were given by their Chinese counterparts. Thanks to the excellent work by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade they were given high-level access to executives in large companies. Opening ...
Employment Relations (Film Production Work) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 28 Oct 2010
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... precedent for how Governments do this. When they want to promote New Zealand they use our promotion agencies, such as New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and Tourism New Zealand. They leverage around the world, off the premieres of these movies; we do that. It is absolutely ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 27 Jul 2010
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... of time. Then, of course, there is the support that goes into business. One of the ironies I discovered is that New Zealand Trade and Enterprise has been handing out these things called market development grants. If people gave Jim Anderton, Pete Hodgson, Maryan ...
Motions - Reserve Bank Funding Agreement—Ratification
Reserve Bank Funding Agreement—Ratification 20 Jul 2010
BRENDON BURNS ... even with our monetary policy setting as it is, in Christchurch we have seen the halving of the staffing of the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise office. That office has assisted many smaller Canterbury exporters but they are no longer able to get the assistance they ...
Tariff (New Zealand-Hong Kong, China Closer Economic Partnership Agreement) Amendment Bill
In Committee 24 Aug 2010
STUART NASH ... speech, I do not think the National Government is taking this issue seriously enough. It is cutting the budget to New Zealand Trade and Enterprise initiatives that the previous Labour Government ramped up. I do not think that New Zealand is resourced enough to take ...
Second Reading 24 Aug 2010
STUART NASH ... argument for this type of free-trade agreement. It puts potential trading partners on the map and on the radar of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, as well as of potential exporters. Despite Hong Kong’s small size, it is a market that is already rapidly expanding. ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... after the signing of the free-trade agreement with China. Despite the fact that there are beachheads and offices for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise in various cities around China, and despite a great improvement, I still do not think it is enough. Of course, many ...
Second Reading 24 Aug 2010
STUART NASH ... argument for this type of free-trade agreement. It puts potential trading partners on the map and on the radar of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, as well as of potential exporters. Despite Hong Kong’s small size, it is a market that is already rapidly expanding. ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... after the signing of the free-trade agreement with China. Despite the fact that there are beachheads and offices for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise in various cities around China, and despite a great improvement, I still do not think it is enough. Of course, many ...
First Reading 23 Jun 2010
STUART NASH ... argument for this type of free-trade agreement. It puts potential trading partners on the map and on the radar of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise as well as potential exporters. Despite Hong Kong’s small size it is a market that is already rapidly expanding, with ...
Tariff (Malaysia Free Trade Agreement) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 24 Jun 2010
STUART NASH ... or an international market development manager. Mr Groser said he would like to invite me to the next meeting with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Well, I would like to go along to that. I would relay a story. There is a ...
STUART NASH The member is dead right. I would love to see the response of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. I said to my friend when he told me this story that he should not worry about Tim Groser. He is a very good trade ...
JACINDA ARDERN ... a free-trade agreement a success for our New Zealand exporters by supporting them and boosting our investment in New Zealand Trade and Enterprise to support them appropriately. We can also do that by making sure that we maintain our brand and trade on our brand ...
In Committee 24 Jun 2010
STUART NASH ... understood the value of marketing, and it realised that we needed to do something. That is why Labour increased New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s funding for market development assistance from $6 million to $54 million. Now there is only $10 million in that ...
DAVID SHEARER ... attention that free-trade agreements like this one are getting. My colleague Stuart Nash mentioned the drop that New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is going to receive through a cut in funding of $101 million. That does not inspire a huge amount of enthusiasm or hope ...
STUART NASH ... Groser knows those figures a hell of a lot better than I ever will. In the 2009 Budget National cut the funding of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise by $101 million over the next 4 years. As Mr Groser will be aware, the Labour Government increased New Zealand Trade and ...
Hon TIM GROSER ... be asked to do more with less. In respect of the idea that we do not follow up on these free-trade agreements because New Zealand Trade and Enterprise has somehow switched off, I will be sure to make a point of personally inviting Mr Nash to the next New Zealand Trade and ...
Second Reading 24 Jun 2010
JACINDA ARDERN ... little but, actually, the Government is scaling them back. In the 2009 Budget, for instance, National cut funding to New Zealand Trade and Enterprise by $101 million over the following 4 years. That is another example of where a cut in investment in the long term will ...
In Committee 24 Jun 2010
STUART NASH ... understood the value of marketing, and it realised that we needed to do something. That is why Labour increased New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s funding for market development assistance from $6 million to $54 million. Now there is only $10 million in that ...
DAVID SHEARER ... attention that free-trade agreements like this one are getting. My colleague Stuart Nash mentioned the drop that New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is going to receive through a cut in funding of $101 million. That does not inspire a huge amount of enthusiasm or hope ...
STUART NASH ... Groser knows those figures a hell of a lot better than I ever will. In the 2009 Budget National cut the funding of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise by $101 million over the next 4 years. As Mr Groser will be aware, the Labour Government increased New Zealand Trade and ...
Hon TIM GROSER ... be asked to do more with less. In respect of the idea that we do not follow up on these free-trade agreements because New Zealand Trade and Enterprise has somehow switched off, I will be sure to make a point of personally inviting Mr Nash to the next New Zealand Trade and ...
Third Reading 24 Jun 2010
STUART NASH ... or an international market development manager. Mr Groser said he would like to invite me to the next meeting with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Well, I would like to go along to that. I would relay a story. There is a ...
STUART NASH The member is dead right. I would love to see the response of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. I said to my friend when he told me this story that he should not worry about Tim Groser. He is a very good trade ...
JACINDA ARDERN ... a free-trade agreement a success for our New Zealand exporters by supporting them and boosting our investment in New Zealand Trade and Enterprise to support them appropriately. We can also do that by making sure that we maintain our brand and trade on our brand ...
Second Reading 24 Jun 2010
JACINDA ARDERN ... little but, actually, the Government is scaling them back. In the 2009 Budget, for instance, National cut funding to New Zealand Trade and Enterprise by $101 million over the following 4 years. That is another example of where a cut in investment in the long term will ...
In Committee 24 Jun 2010
STUART NASH ... understood the value of marketing, and it realised that we needed to do something. That is why Labour increased New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s funding for market development assistance from $6 million to $54 million. Now there is only $10 million in that ...
DAVID SHEARER ... attention that free-trade agreements like this one are getting. My colleague Stuart Nash mentioned the drop that New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is going to receive through a cut in funding of $101 million. That does not inspire a huge amount of enthusiasm or hope ...
STUART NASH ... Groser knows those figures a hell of a lot better than I ever will. In the 2009 Budget National cut the funding of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise by $101 million over the next 4 years. As Mr Groser will be aware, the Labour Government increased New Zealand Trade and ...
Hon TIM GROSER ... be asked to do more with less. In respect of the idea that we do not follow up on these free-trade agreements because New Zealand Trade and Enterprise has somehow switched off, I will be sure to make a point of personally inviting Mr Nash to the next New Zealand Trade and ...
Third Reading 24 Jun 2010
STUART NASH ... or an international market development manager. Mr Groser said he would like to invite me to the next meeting with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Well, I would like to go along to that. I would relay a story. There is a ...
STUART NASH The member is dead right. I would love to see the response of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. I said to my friend when he told me this story that he should not worry about Tim Groser. He is a very good trade ...
JACINDA ARDERN ... a free-trade agreement a success for our New Zealand exporters by supporting them and boosting our investment in New Zealand Trade and Enterprise to support them appropriately. We can also do that by making sure that we maintain our brand and trade on our brand ...
Second Reading 24 Jun 2010
JACINDA ARDERN ... little but, actually, the Government is scaling them back. In the 2009 Budget, for instance, National cut funding to New Zealand Trade and Enterprise by $101 million over the following 4 years. That is another example of where a cut in investment in the long term will ...
Second Reading 23 Jun 2010
STUART NASH ... their ability to take advantage of this free-trade agreement. In its last term, the Labour Government increased New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s funding for market development assistance from $6 million to $54 million. Now there is only just under $10 million ...
First Reading 20 Apr 2010
STUART NASH ... about this free-trade agreement, we come back to the very important point that the Minister who is responsible for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise cut $10 million from its operational budget in 2009. My question to the Government and to the Hon Gerry Brownlee is how ...
Hon CHRIS CARTER ... provided by the free-trade agreement. Between 2005 and 2008, when Labour was in Government, it increased New Zealand Trade and Enterprise funding from $6 million to $54 million. We knew that it was critical to invest to maximise these opportunities. I am ...
Hon CHRIS CARTER It is a reduction of $101 million in New Zealand Trade and Enterprise funding. Remember that this is the funding I just spoke about that, in 3 years under Labour, went up from $6 million to $54...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... previous Labour Government, one might argue, but it is getting even more modest, indeed. That is not to say that New Zealand Trade and Enterprise does not do a good job, and it is not to say that that agency is somehow absent in Malaysia. Neither of those things is ...
Securities (Disclosure) Amendment Bill, Financial Advisers Amendment Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 23 Jul 2009
CLARE CURRAN ... and also about job creation. But what we have seen under this Government instead has been cuts to the funding of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise grant programmes, slashed research and development tax credits, the slashing of the Fast Forward Fund, and putting ...
Tariff (AANZFTA) Amendment Bill, Customs and Excise (AANZFTA) Amendment Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 21 Jul 2009
STUART NASH ... is that companies go out and leverage their own brand against Brand New Zealand. Do members know who does this? It is New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. New Zealand Trade and Enterprise manages New Zealand’s international marketing and development. It goes out there and ...
STUART NASH ... are small to medium enterprises. They cannot afford to employ their own international marketing managers. They need New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, and the last thing they need is for it to have $10 million cut from its budget. So I am fully supportive of this ...
Tariff (AANZFTA) Amendment Bill, Customs and Excise (AANZFTA) Amendment Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 2 Jul 2009
Hon MARYAN STREET ... final point—and it is one that I think one of my colleagues will pick up on later, as well—is the preparedness of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise to invest in ASEAN markets to facilitate the reach of New Zealand export companies and export industries into those ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... the ceremony about the agreement. There was a great deal of media coverage of the agreement. There was a retooling of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s presence in various parts of China as it sought to extend its focus into that country in light of the free-trade ...
Budget Debate 3 Jun 2009
DARIEN FENTON ... help its friends in business through the current crisis. Why was it necessary to cut $101 million over 4 years from New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s market development fund? This Budget is dishonest. It will fail to revive our failing economy and make it stronger ...
Budget Debate 2 Jun 2009
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... Even the programmes that were there—the research and development tax cuts, KiwiSaver, economic development with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise to get exports up—are all gone or cut back. What is there to replace them? There is nothing. There is no vision, no ...
Taxation (Budget Tax Measures) Bill
Third Reading 29 May 2009
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... farm to develop new industries and new markets by taking the stuffing out of the Ministry of Economic Development and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. That was the wrong cure for the wrong disease. That means that ordinary, decent, hard-working New Zealanders will be on ...
ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area Bill
In Committee 25 Jun 2009
JACQUI DEAN ... requirements that the enactment of this legislation will have on various entities. Firstly, I want to talk about New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. Minister Groser indicated to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee that New Zealand Trade and Enterprise ...
STUART NASH ... or resources to hire an international market development manager. They rely on the New Zealand Government through New Zealand Trade and Enterprise.
Second Reading 24 Jun 2009
STUART NASH ... and ears—our international marketing managers and market development gurus—work for a Government department called New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. That organisation was set up by Mike Moore. I think that members on both sides of the House would agree that Mike Moore ...
STUART NASH ... economy, nor does he understand what needs to happen to achieve sustainable economic growth. Cutting $10 million from New Zealand Trade and Enterprise when we are debating a significant free-trade agreement is akin to stealing the future—
JACQUI DEAN ...again—this bill is hugely beneficial to New Zealand trade. It was very encouraging to note Minister Groser saying that New Zealand Trade and Enterprise will be directed into having a focus on our exporters. That is also good news, because it is all very well putting into ...
Second Reading 18 Jun 2009
Hon MARYAN STREET ... to be a near neighbour. And it has enormous potential; if our businesses in New Zealand with the assistance of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise can maximise the possibilities that this agreement presents, then they will do extremely well. There is enormous ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... I am not convinced that the support that will be delivered through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise—and especially the latter—into the ASEAN countries will be good enough; I am not convinced. In the case of China, we ...
First Reading 28 Apr 2009
Hon PETE HODGSON ... agreement involving a series of trading partners collectively bigger than China will be as well supported by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise as the agreement with China has been. I do not know that that is the case; I hope I am wrong. I note that New Zealand ...
STUART NASH ... businesses. Let us just hope that the new Minister for Economic Development does not cut the staff and budget of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. I hope that Minister Brownlee will please provide the businessmen and businesswomen of New Zealand with the certainty ...
STUART NASH ... in Saigon is not the same as doing business in Levin. As my colleague the Hon Peter Hodgson has already alluded to, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is this country’s international marketing and market development agency, and I hope like hell that Minister Groser has ...
STUART NASH ... is awake! I hope Minister Groser has asked these Ministers to please not cut staffing levels and resources from New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, as they have from the Inland Revenue Department, the Ministry of Justice, the Tertiary Education Commission, etc., etc., ...
Reinstatement of Business 9 Dec 2008
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 29 Jul 2008
Dr RICHARD WORTH The latest New Zealand Trade and Enterprise document—the statement of intent for 2008-11—which was fleetingly considered by the Commerce Committee in connection with ...
Hon PAUL SWAIN ... has done. That member sat on the same select committee when we heard the Ministry of Economic Development and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise talking about some of those things, and talking about the work they had done in the free-trade agreement with China, ...
Budget Debate 27 May 2008
Dr RICHARD WORTH ... as satisfactory or better, and 72 percent rated it as good or very good. I would like to say something about New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, because that seems to be an organisation that is very like the curate’s egg: good in part, and bad in part. There are ...
Hon Trevor Mallard That’s not a New Zealand Trade and Enterprise programme. Get it right, for a change.
Dr RICHARD WORTH ... the value that being from New Zealand represents. There is an initiative to be further developed in conjunction with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise that could produce huge gains for the country. At the moment, it seems that the organisation has insufficient interest.
Financial Review Debate - In Committee
In Committee 18 Mar 2008
Dr RICHARD WORTH ... concerned, in that latter case, with setting the frameworks. I was interested that at the financial review of the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise entity, held before the Commerce Committee, the chairman of the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise structure spoke about ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 13 Feb 2008
Hon PETE HODGSON ... Technology for Business Growth programme with a few million dollars in it, and that was it. That was it. There was no New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, and no collaboration with the social partners, the Council of Trade Unions, or with Business New Zealand. That happened ...
General Debate 27 Jun 2007
Hon TAU HENARE ... rotting Government. They will go the way of that Government on the other side of the House. I am talking about New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, Te Puni Kōkiri, and the “Get Checked” Diabetes Aotearoa health programme. There we have $12 billion of Government money ...
Supplementary Estimates - Imprest Supply Debate
Imprest Supply Debate 26 Jun 2007
Hon PETE HODGSON ... so arrived the fashion industry, the film industry, and many, many other things beside that, courtesy of the work of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. What does National want to do? It wants to throw out New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. It thinks it is corporate ....
Hon PETE HODGSON The proof comes in the votes, right, left, and centre. Whenever we try to introduce New Zealand Trade and Enterprise legislation, National votes against it. When we tried to involve National by seeing whether we could get its support for ...
Budget Debate 23 May 2007
Dr RICHARD WORTH ... members on his side of the House seem to gain no confidence from them—and that is the seemingly risk-averse stance of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. It is a stance that is reflected in a number of ways. I ask members to look at the Budget and make a judgment. We all ...
Dr ASHRAF CHOUDHARY ... statement saying that this Budget allocated a $23.8 million increase in funding for the strengthening and growth of a New Zealand Trade and Enterprise presence in the key markets of Asia. The expansion will see Trade and Enterprise open up to five more offices in China—
Budget Statement - Budget Debate
Budget Debate 17 May 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... $33 million will be spent over four years towards developing better export links with Asia. This includes increasing New Zealand Trade and Enterprise services in Asia, strategic tourism marketing in China, and planning for the 2010 Shanghai Expo.
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 13 Feb 2007
Dr RICHARD WORTH ... build a sustainable way to feed the export drive, because we need to catch up. I believe that the balance within the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise group is flawed. We should be looking at extending market help for exporters. It is a sadness that on 30 November 2006, ...
Dr RICHARD WORTH ... just said, it is not in the annual report. These are looming gaps that have been identified by the chief executive of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. But there are other questions. How many international companies have asked New Zealand Trade and Enterprise for help? ...
Westpac New Zealand Bill
In Committee 6 Sep 2006
HONE HARAWIRA ... Bank to ensure that Westpac and all big banks operating in Aotearoa are incorporated here. We support the view of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise that because banks are vital and strategic players in our economy, they should come under the control of this country’s ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 18 Jul 2006
KATHERINE RICH ... been spent. Why? Because overseas investors were not considering New Zealand as a viable option for their investment. New Zealand Trade and Enterprise has told the Opposition that it simply was not getting applications. New Zealand did not cut the mustard as an investment ...
MARK BLUMSKY ... we ask of it, whether we are rather anti. That is not the case. Many things being done through organisations like New Zealand Trade and Enterprise are making a difference. When we read about the programmes the vote is focused on, we have to say that some good things ...
Māori Purposes Bill
First Reading 27 Jun 2006
Hon JIM ANDERTON ... to playing its role. Officials from the Ministry for the Environment, the Ministry ofthe Department of Conservation, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, and regional councils and the industry are working together constructively. They are providing practical help to develop ...
Budget Debate 23 May 2006
Hon LUAMANUVAO WINNIE LABAN ... in the Porirua Basin. Brent Albiston also expressed his appreciation to me and our Government for the support that New Zealand Trade and Enterprise has given to his business. The sound economy is building opportunity and security for our families in Porirua City and up ...
Economic Development
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise—China Beachhead Advisory Board 6 Jul 2011
Hon DAVID CARTER ... that the member is totally opposed to foreign investment. What I was talking about yesterday was the performance of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise in raising the amount of exporting by New Zealand companies to China. It has been remarkably successful—something that ...
Hon DAVID CARTER ... by the beachhead board occurred simply because there was a significant clash of personality between the management of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise in China and the beachhead board. The beachhead board delivered an ultimatum to New Zealand Trade and Enterprise stating ...
Hon David Parker Did a member of the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise board cause or contribute to the mass resignation of the China beachhead board; if so, who was that board member?
Hon DAVID CARTER I am not aware of any board member of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise causing the resignation of the beachhead advisory board. What happened, as I have just explained to the member, is that ...
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise—China Beachhead Advisory Board 5 Jul 2011
Hon DAVID PARKER Did the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Beachheads advisory board in China resign en masse the week before last; if so, for what reasons?
Hon DAVID CARTER Yes; differences of opinion developed over quite a period of time between the beachhead advisory board and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, and it was agreed that the best way forward was to start with a clean slate.
Hon DAVID CARTER I am quite happy to tell the member why we should have confidence in the work of New Zealand exporters and of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. China has become New Zealand’s second-largest trading partner since 2008. We have observed a 140 percent increase in the ...
Hon DAVID CARTER The Beachheads programme is but one suite of mechanisms used by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. It is absolutely an operational matter as to how the advisory board’s relationship with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise ...
Hon DAVID CARTER ... the member needs to realise is that the Beachheads programme dealt with 12 New Zealand companies working in China; New Zealand Trade and Enterprise works with 183 companies quite successfully, as the trade figures demonstrate.
Income Gap, Parity with Australia—Interim Milestones 18 Aug 2010
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... Management Act, which has already had some effect on the economy; the transition to the International Growth Fund for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise; focusing all of the Government’s resources on front-line services; and strengthening the science system with the ...
Economic Development, Minister—Cabinet Papers Submitted in Last 6 Months 21 Jul 2010
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... food and beverage industry, the leveraging programme from the Rugby World Cup, the output class of training through New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, the realignment of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s grant scheme, the aquaculture industry, the various missions that ...
Economy—Innovation, Growth, and Export-led Recovery in 2010-11 3 Jun 2010
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... last year I announced the establishment of the International Growth Fund. The fund is targeted at firms that New Zealand Trade and Enterprise has assessed as most likely to contribute to New Zealand’s long-term growth. In the 2010-11 financial year funding will ...
Rugby World Cup—Initiatives Benefiting New Zealand Businesses 28 Apr 2010
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... economic development agencies, and chambers of commerce to develop its business engagement programme. In addition, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise has developed a guide to opportunities in 2011, as well as a website to make procurement opportunities easy and ...
Job Summit—Jobs Saved and Created 25 Jun 2009
Hon Shane Jones How does cutting $10 million from the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise budget help business assistance schemes?
Export Growth and Trade Finance Risks—Short-term Credit Insurance 5 May 2009
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE Yes. The New Zealand Export Credit Office has been talking to banks to promote the scheme, working with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise to ensure information about it is out in the market place, and presenting to industry organisations such as Business New ...
Small and Medium Sized Businesses—Government Assistance 7 Apr 2009
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... is also available to refer businesses that wish to engage with mentors, with those appropriate people to assist them. New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is paying the $100 registration fee usually charged. Since this offer was made available in February, 209 firms have been ...
Business Opportunities Overseas—Government Assistance 15 Nov 2007
Dr Richard Worth Why is New Zealand Trade and Enterprise not prepared to establish measurement mechanisms for the amount of money it expends on export support, unlike its ...
Hon PETE HODGSON The member misrepresents New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. It is very keen on an evaluation mechanism, and indeed the first results from such a mechanism will be available in, I ...
Exporters—New Markets 22 May 2007
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... enable New Zealand firms to export into new markets, including Asia. I saw an alternative report that stated that all New Zealand Trade and Enterprise business development grants would be axed. The first, excellent report was from the Labour-led Government’s 2007 Budget, ...
Asia—Trade Opportunities 12 Dec 2006
Mark Blumsky Why did New Zealand Trade and Enterprise appoint Extra Rations Ltd to run the Government retail store in Hong Kong, the New Zealand Focus centre, and give it $1.3 ...
Mark Blumsky Why, when New Zealand Trade and Enterprise drew up the criteria for retail manager for the Government retail store in Hong Kong, as well as including criteria such ...
Mark Blumsky ... retail store in Hong Kong, New Zealand Products Hong Kong Ltd, one of the original three companies shortlisted by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise; if not, having just replaced Extra Rations, why was no contract tendered for that position—the Minister is obviously ...
Market Development Assistance Scheme—Announcements 7 Dec 2006
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... of the House will not let me say it all, but as well as the $33.75 million increase there will be an expansion of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s Path to Market pilot programme, which supports new exporters into Australia. A very successful conference of chief ...
Trade and Enterprise—Operation of Programmes 9 Nov 2006
CHRIS TREMAIN Is he satisfied with the operations of all the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise programmes covered by the evaluations released over the last week?
Chris Tremain ... whether the programme met its policy outcomes, and that the efficiency of the programme could not be measured because New Zealand Trade and Enterprise did not record staff time spent on projects?
Mark Blumsky Is the Minister concerned that, more than 3 years after the establishment of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, the September 2006 overview report by the Ministry of Economic Development states that there is no mechanism currently ...
New Zealand Focus Store—Sales Data, Hong Kong 16 May 2006
Katherine Rich Will he confirm that the retailers who run that store are required by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise in their contract to provide it with sales reports that break down sales by day, by week, and by month; and how can he ...
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... withdraw and apologise for telling the truth about that member, who has spent tens of thousands of dollars worth of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise time answering Official Information Act requests—
Mark Blumsky I seek leave to table the scorecard used by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise to evaluate the competing bids, showing Northeast Wines and Spirits to be the lowest in that process. I also note that ...
New Zealand Focus Store—North Asia Sales 11 May 2006
Katherine Rich ... costs an estimated of $1.3 million per annum to run—that is $3,500 a day—what kind of commercial retail operation is New Zealand Trade and Enterprise running if it does not have basic figures like sales data and information that any other retail business in the world ...
Prime Minister
Ministers—Confidence 30 Jul 2009
Hon Trevor Mallard ... confidence in the Minister for Economic Development if he revealed commercially confidential information supplied to New Zealand Trade and Enterprise if the company that supplied it criticised Government policy; if not, where is that line drawn?
Television New Zealand—Former Chairman 2 May 2006
Dr Don Brash ... “enemy” is unfit to serve on the board of a Crown entity; if so, why does Mr Boyce continue to sit on the board of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise?
Trade
ASEAN Countries—Trade 25 Oct 2007
Hon PHIL GOFF ... with the biggest market we have in South-east Asia. Our exports to Indonesia are now worth about $650 million a year. New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is also increasing its efforts—for example, by setting up a very successful Beachheads programme in the South-east Asia ...
Pacific Nations—Trade with New Zealand 15 May 2007
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... Business Council, to promote two-way trade, and organises periodic trade missions into the Pacific. Offices of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise in Suva, Noumea, and Papeete act as links for Pacific clients. Through New Zealand aid the Government supports capacity ...
Information Technology—CeBIT Exhibition 28 Mar 2006
Hon PHIL GOFF ... potential partners, customers, and distributors.” This was an excellent Government initiative, well-organised by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise.
Tariff (Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 23 Mar 2006
JOHN HAYES ... if we do not generate it? That is why we need this bill. I will seek leave to table a document extracted from the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise annual report of 2005. Page 44 of that report shows that money being spent by this Government on generating trade ...
JOHN HAYES ... it expanded to include other Pacific Islanders, but I will support it fully. I seek leave to table page 44 of the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise annual report of 2005.
Small Business
Small Business—Advisory Group Report 1 Mar 2006
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... tax matters, and on policies and programmes run by the Department of Labour, the Accident Compensation Corporation, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, and Statistics New Zealand, to name but a few. All of these issues are highly relevant to small to medium sized ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 14 Feb 2006
MARK BLUMSKY ... Just what has been happening in the last 6 years? I take this opportunity to quote an end-of-year review of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. It stated that it is a cumbersome structure. Its priorities for policy and expenditure are not very clear. The impact of ...
Prime Minister’s Statement 14 Feb 2006
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... and worked to open up opportunities for exporters through trade policy and free-trade agreements and through New Zealand Trade and Enterprise programmes. We have looked to leverage advantage for this country wherever possible from major events, from the America’s ...
Taxation (Annual Rates and Urgent Measures) Bill
Second Reading 8 Dec 2005
PANSY WONG ... last year’s financial results of the Ministry of Economic Development. That is a Government department, together with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, that would have been allocated over $100 million of taxpayers’ money. But a senior manager, who appeared in front of the ...
Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Paid Parental Leave for Self-Employed Persons) Amendment Bill 2005
First Reading 6 Dec 2005
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... to note that women are significantly under-represented amongst the self-employed—particularly Māori women. New Zealand Trade and Enterprise has found that only around 44 percent of applicants seeking Enterprise Awards Scheme grants were women, and only 8 ...
Imprest Supply (Third for 2005/06) Bill
Imprest Supply Debate 23 Nov 2005
PANSY WONG ... and fifty people converged together to try to convert some creative initiatives into commercial reality. Apparently, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise contributed $250,000 for 150 people to have a talkfest. That is what it was. When the organisers were asked how the ...
Address in Reply 23 Nov 2005
Hon TREVOR MALLARD Does the member want the job for himself? He would have to come into the coalition for that to occur. New Zealand Trade and Enterprise will have to refocus more clearly on growing our export market than it has been doing. We will continue to advocate ...
Finance
Economy—Growth 19 Aug 2009
Hon David Cunliffe Can the Minister explain how cutting research and development tax credits and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise programmes will promote exports and close the external imbalance?
Economy—Current Account Deficit 25 Jun 2009
Hon David Cunliffe ... the current account deficit, did his Government axe the research and development tax credits and reduce funding for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, both of which would have assisted New Zealand firms to innovate and gain new export markets?
Air New Zealand—Engineering Outsourcing 15 Nov 2005
Sue Bradford ... Working for Families and the accommodation supplement are huge daily subsidies to employers; and is he aware that New Zealand Trade and Enterprise actually identified aircraft maintenance as a key specialised manufacturing sector for this Government?
Address in Reply 15 Nov 2005
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... opportunities for our exporters is central to our economic policy. We will be designating 2007 as export year, and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise will be expected to increase its focus on exporting. We know, though, that the big export gains for New Zealand will be ...
Governor-General’s Speech 8 Nov 2005
Madam SPEAKER ... New Zealand First commits my government to preparing for 2007 to be a specially designated “Export Year”. The work of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise will be refocused more on exporting, especially of higher value goods and services, with a client-centred approach and a ...