Sam summary: Earlier this year march 12 Hone Harawira opened the feed the kids debate to which English said Mr Harawira made a false assertion which was later found to be false number fudging by Mr English- ~HONE HARAWIRA (Leader—Mana) question to the Deputy Prime Minister: What more is the Government planning to do to ensure all New Zealand children have food to eat each school day in light of the recent Treasury finding that the number of children living in poverty has increased to 285,000? ~Hon BILL ENGLISH (Deputy Prime Minister) abbreviated reply: First, I would disagree with the member’s assertion about the number of children. Treasury recently announced that it had discovered an error in its high-level statistics. No one’s actual circumstances in the real world have changed one bit as a result of its statistical error. Full debate here>parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/debates/debates/speeches/50HansS_20140312_00000666/harawira-hone-questions-for-oral-answer-—-questions-to ~Statements made by Hon David Parker (Labour) to voxy.co.nz 24 June, 2014 quite rightly points out Englishs fibbing after Hone had raised similar issues previously- Bill English’s narrow and selective focus on a small subset of inequality statistics is fooling no-one, Labour’s Finance spokesperson David Parker says. Bill English is yet again trying to hoodwink New Zealanders by claiming inequality is not growing. New Zealand is now a country where the gap between the wealthy and the less well-off grows wider every year. Read more here>voxy.co.nz/politics/english-fooling-no-one-inequality-parker/5/194315
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:52:04 +0000
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