10 December 2001

Media release – Māori Affairs Committee

2000/01 Financial Review of the Ministry of Māori Development
(Te Puni Kōkiri)

Parliament’s Māori Affairs Committee today tabled its report on the 2000/01 financial review of Te Puni Kōkiri in the House of Representatives.

Main areas examined by the committee were:
 background to the ministry
 outstanding issues
 financial performance
 effectiveness in ‘Reducing Inequalities’
 monitoring performance
 Māori television

The committee noted that Te Puni Kōkiri received ‘good’ audit assessments of financial and service performance management. These have all remained consistent from the 1999/2000 financial review. The committee is pleased to note that Te Puni Kōkiri is maintaining a ‘good’ level of financial and service performance management assessments.

The committee noted that some robust information was received from Te Puni Kōkiri regarding benchmarks and evaluations of the ‘Reducing Inequalities’ programmes.

Copies of the report are available at: http://www.clerk.parliament.govt.nz/publications

ENDS

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