The Government spends $191 million each year flying MPs and civil servants domestically and internationally and is looking to trim the bill. The Ministry of Economic Development, in tender documents, is asking the aviation industry for a better deal on air travel.
Every year the Government pays for state servants, including MPs, to fly 440 million air miles on domestic, trans-Tasman and international air travel. The annual air travel bill covers 630,000 transactions, including 190,000 international travellers.
The ministry said it was seeking “innovative solutions” to help cut costs. Among other things it also wanted to improve information flow about air travel to help cut costs and get more value for money.
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4 responses to “General Debate 28/04/11”
It beggars belief that a pissant little island at the bottom of the Pacific,- with a mere four and a half million people-needs it’s politicians and bureaucrats to fly so many miles.
The way to trim costs would be to halve the miles flown.
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Agree with kg but also wonder why Parliament still sits in Wellington.
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I thought these clowns were big promoters of the Internet. Even us peasants in the sticks are up for ultra fast broadband in the future . I know my kids at the local area school have classes with other children in other schools linked by the net, it’s fast becoming second nature to them. Why the fuck do our troughing politicians have to fly the world when 9 out of 10 times business can be done in front of a computer screen. When the fuck are they going to get it in their heads when Shonkey says we must tighten our belts it also includes these freeloading wasters.
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Kiwi In America on Keywiblog
“I note that Redbaiter wasted no time posting links to forgery claims.”
Could you post one of those links please, or go back to your Keywiblog knuckle dragger friends and admit you lied.
Read the thread lamer. I actually said this.
“BTW, I reserve my opinion on the authenticity of this document.”
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