Nats shave spending to promise slightly lower govt debt

Nats shave spending to promise slightly lower govt debt
National's finance spokeswoman, Nicola Willis. (Image: NZME)
Pattrick Smellie
A National party-led government will deliver a pre-Christmas mini-budget to kick off 6.5% spending cuts that it would require from back-office or non-essential programmes, National's shadow finance minister, Nicola Willis, announced.She made the pledge at the publication of National's updated fiscal plan to deliver a $3.4 billion improvement in government debt levels and slightly larger fiscal surpluses than the Treasury forecasts in last week’s pre-election economic and fiscal update.National’s much-awaited “fiscal pl...

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