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You've stressed that your job has been to rebalance the economy, but one of the big remaining imbalances is between young and old. Third year student Denise French says the budget attacks students, families, workers, and let me read a quote - 'borrowing to ...  

Well look it's pretty moderate actually this budget it's reasonably tight, but we're not going down the road of some of the more dramatic cuts in public spending around the world. Just last week the Victorian government announced 4000 redundancies in its ...  

Finance Minister Bill English believes National will romp home for a third term. Addressing about 500 delegates at the National Party's northern regional convention in Auckland yesterday, the Finance Minister spoke of the confidence New Zealanders had in ...  

Thursday's ultra-orthodox Budget was sold by Bill English as the last word in fiscal rectitude. But it lacked one rather necessary ingredient. The Minister of Finance and the Prime Minister knew exactly what that was, because they were questioned ...  

Finance Minister Bill English says one-off enrolment of all workers not already in KiwiSaver will be competing with a number of other spending areas for money from the Government's planned surpluses. Before the election the Government said it would conduct ...  

Finance Minister Bill English believes National will romp home for a third term. Addressing about 500 delegates at the National Party's northern regional convention in Auckland yesterday, the Finance Minister spoke of the confidence New Zealanders had in ...  

Finance Minister Bill English is about to tell Parliament in his Budget speech that the Government is still responsibly managing its finances, meaning it is on track to post an operating surplus in 2014/2015. This is a considerable achievement, says ...  

Finance Minister Bill English is continuing to rule out raising the retirement age despite renewed criticism over the mounting cost of superannuation. Figures in Thursday's Budget show the superannuation bill will equal total education spending by 2016 - a ...  

Finance Minister Bill English is suggesting people who can't find a job move to Christchurch for the post-earthquake rebuild. English is being criticised for not doing enough for the unemployed, with Labour leader David Shearer saying the Government's job ...  

Finance Minister Bill English says yesterday's 5.2 earthquake in Christchurch could delay the rebuild of the city. Asked today on TV3's "The Nation", if the earthquake could cause another setback to the rebuild, Mr English said: "It's possible." "I mean ...  

Key also confirmed Finance Minister Bill English's signal last week that early childhood education funding would see greater targeting. The Government wanted to increase participation and the big target area was Maori and Pacific children. "I think you ...  

The poll of 750 people was taken from April 19-29, about a week after Finance Minister Bill English said the Government would exercise its veto over the bill even if it got the necessary support to pass. NZ First and the Maori Party joined United Future ...  

But Australia, too, is looking to rein in its super tax generosity. Wayne Swann, Australian Treasurer, will reportedly claw back about A$1 billion in super tax concessions to the super rich in his upcoming budget, an option Bill English no longer has.  

it's confusing," Mr Hanlon said. Last year, Deputy Prime Minister Bill English said prisons were a "fiscal and moral failure" and that "building more of them on a large scale is something no New Zealander wants to see". Now, Corrections' three service arms ...  

The financial statements are the final set to be released before Finance Minister Bill English releases his budget on May 24, which is expected to outline how the government will keep its commitment of returning to surplus by 2015. Commenting on the Crown ...  

Budget 2012 will show the Government is on track and sticking to its plan. As Bill English said in a speech a few days ago, we are set to post an operating surplus in 2014/15. We don't have the final forecasts through from Treasury yet, but we have enough ...  

Key also confirmed Finance Minister Bill English's signal last week that early childhood education funding would see greater targeting. The government wanted to increase participation and the big target area was Maori and Pacific children. "I think you ...  

This past week we learnt there's a further billion-dollar hole in the Government's finances, and both Prime Minister John Key and Finance Minister Bill English are talking a near-zero budget next month with no new spending. Labour's David Parker and the ...  

But Australia, too, is looking to rein in its super tax generosity. Wayne Swann, Australian Treasurer, will reportedly claw back about A$1 billion in super tax concessions to the super rich in his upcoming budget, an option Bill English no longer has.  

But Finance Minister Bill English said New Zealand is caught between US interventions to keep their currency low (making New Zealand exports to the US less profitable) and China's lid on currency rises (making New Zealand exporters less competitive in ...  

The Budget later this month will confirm the path back to surplus in 2014/15, despite lower than forecast tax revenue in the Government financial statements in the nine months to 31 March, Finance Minister Bill English says. Core Crown tax revenue was $1.6 ...  

Finance Minister Bill English has since said the government will take control of some $350 million of assets from the failed finance companies through a new entity called Crown Asset Management, to control fees paid to receivers. SCF was the biggest call ...  

Finance Minister Bill English is downplaying the importance of the Government's target of returning its books to surplus by the 2014/15 financial year. Mr English was commenting on Tuesday after the operating deficit before gains and losses widened to $6.1 ...  

Finance Minister Bill English said the Budget would confirm the path back to surplus in 2014-2015 as the Statements were consistent with preliminary Budget forecasts showing deterioration of 1 billion NZ dollars since the Budget Policy Statement in February.  

The financial statements are the final set to be released before Finance Minister Bill English releases his budget on May 24, which is expected to outline how the government will keep its commitment of returning to surplus by 2015. Commenting on the Crown ...  

Bill English of Mindsharp and Ben Curry of Summit 7 Systems are offering a limited one-day intensive course on how to properly re-design SharePoint after a failed implementation. Mindsharp and Summit 7 Systems are teaming up to offer businesses the ...  

Mr Collins' large donation out- matched senior National Party minister Bill English who received $42,723 and co-leader of the Maori Party Pita Sharples who received $55,000. But in the high stakes game of politics it was not enough to get him over the line.  

Mr Key confirmed that a Cabinet committee meeting last week attended by himself, Finance Minister Bill English and the heads of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and State Services Commission grilled Mr Allen over the plan. He also said that ...  

BUSINESSDESK: Prime Minister John Key has restated the government's confidence it can run a Budget surplus in the year to June 2015, just days after Finance Minister Bill English questioned its achievability. "Budget 2012 will show we are on track to ...  

Spending controls forever is the recipe Bill English says we need if New Zealand is to return to surplus in 2015. The Finance Minister delivers his fourth Budget in a month from today. His own advisors are now predicting a deficit three years out but Mr ...  

But speculation is widespread in the party that a change of approach is needed if Mr Shearer is to lift his profile and cash in on the Government's problems as Finance Minister Bill English struggles to get the books back into the black. Left-leaning ...  

Bill English says the options are being considered. "We're the owners of these businesses, Kiwibank's growing fast, Post is shrinking, and we need to make sure we can end up with a stable business that's good value for the taxpayer. And I wouldn't want to ...  

Finance Minister Bill English added to the downbeat tone for New Zealand, citing a billion dollar deterioration in the government's operating budget forecast. Early budget estimates show an operating deficit of $670 million in the 2014/15 financial year ...  

The government this week reiterated its commitment to achieving a surplus by 2014/15, a bid which now has more to do with political rather than economic credibility. Few economists believe a surplus by that time is possible and, as this newspaper has ...  

The Government intends to strengthen the Public Finance Act so there are more checks and balances on ministers' spending decisions and their long-term effects, Finance Minister Bill English says. "The fiscal responsibility provisions of the Public Finance ...  

Traders also ignored Finance Minister Bill English’s warning that the government’s books have deteriorated, with early budget estimates of an operating deficit of $670 million in the 2014/15 year, when the government pledged to get the books back in the black.  

Finance Minister Bill English is softening the public up for a wafer-thin surplus in 2014-15 as worsening forecasts put the Government's key election promise under threat. In a speech setting the scene for the May 24 Budget, Mr English said yesterday that ...  

Finance Minister Bill English added to the downbeat tone for New Zealand, citing a billion-dollar deterioration in the government’s operating budget forecast. Early budget estimates an operating deficit of $670 million in the 2014-15 financial year ...  

Finance Minister Bill English told a Christchurch business gathering yesterday that while the Government was making a $13 billion commitment towards the earthquake recovery, the region needed to show it was "open for business" to attract required outside ...  

The government is taking "a good hard look" at options put up by NZ Post, which include cutting the number of days it delivers mail, Finance Minister Bill English says. NZ Post chairman Michael Cullen has written to State Owned Enterprises Minister Tony ...  

Australian businesses buying into New Zealand "is how you get higher wages", Finance Minister Bill English says. Labour leader David Shearer, who will outline a plan today to boost wages, said New Zealand was at risk of becoming a permanently low-wage ...  

"It is an important part of their development and the development of our country," he said. Deputy Prime Minister Bill English, who was born in Lumsden, officially opened the new building and said the haka performed by students as he arrived was "most impressive".  

Finance Minister Bill English has admitted it will not be easy, particularly with ongoing debt problems in Europe reducing forecasts for global growth. But he says returning to surplus and repaying debt are among the most important things the Government ...  

A labour market expert has criticised Finance Minister Bill English's positive reception to jobs being moved to New Zealand from Australia because of cheaper wages. Stephen Blumenfeld, Director of the Industrial Relations Centre at Victoria University's ...  

Mr Peters wrote to Mr Key and Finance Minister Bill English asking them to add a 10 per cent discount for winter power bills to Super Gold Card entitlements. He estimated it would cost about $34 million a year, and could be done by requiring state-owned ...  

Finance Minister Bill English, as a shareholding minister of KiwiRail, says his responsibility is to ensure the company has the funding it needs to operate successfully. On Thursday, KiwiRail informed 123 workers at the Hillside engineering workshops in ...  

Participants at the International Trade Union Confederation and International Labour Conference held last week in Singapore also signed a collective letter calling on Finance Minister Bill English not to veto Labour MP Sue Moroney’s PPL Bill and to work ...  

In the face of criticism New Zealand is becoming "Australia's Mexico" as a low-wage alternative, Finance Minister Bill English says Australian companies are starting to see this side of the Tasman as a more attractive place to invest. According to English ...  

Mr Peters wrote to Mr Key and Finance Minister Bill English asking them to add a 10 per cent discount for winter power bills to Super Gold Card entitlements. He estimated it would cost about $34 million a year, and could be done by requiring state-owned ...  

The pressure on Bill English’s budget just moved up a notch. Delivery of his fourth budget is just under five weeks away and the finance minister (who has also been acting prime minister these past couple of weeks) is facing increased public pressure on ...  

"Bill English has been misdirecting his energy on praising the advantages of low wages to attract Australian jobs rather than coming up with real ideas to grow the economy. "There are record numbers of Kiwis leaving for Australia. They are not going so ...  

Finance Minister Bill English was a little bemused as he emerged from last week's Australia-New Zealand leadership forum in Sydney: for once, the Aussies were feeling somewhat less happy about their lot. "There's probably a bit more optimism in New Zealand ...  

So was she just out to embarrass the Government? Did she just want Bill English to have to say, "No, you can't have it?" Are her motives that shallow? Every three years, we put our democratic choice of government on to the Treasury benches. There ...  

A scene setting speech for next month's Budget will be delivered by the Finance Minister today. Bill English will address the Wellington Employers' Chamber of Commerce at lunchtime. The May 24 Budget has been labelled a "zero budget" by Mr English because ...  

Within days of the bill being drawn from the members' ballot, Finance Minister Bill English said National would use its veto rights to scupper it even if it enjoyed majority support. That approach is as unsound as it is precipitate. The Government has the ...  

No one will have been more surprised than Bill English to sit in a Sydney hotel yesterday listening to Australian business leaders talk openly about their clear case of "New Zealand envy". Political leaders are frequently feted offshore for policy choices ...  

"On TVNZ's Q+A programme today, Finance Minister and Acting Prime Minister Bill English said that 'if the economy picks up and we get back to surplus sooner then of course there's room for discussion about all those things people want us to have more of ...  

PAUL Labour got lucky this month when Sue Moroney's paid-parental-leave private members' bill was drawn from the ballot.  The bill would extend the paid parental leave from 14 weeks, as it is at the moment, to six months, and with United Future and Maori ...  

Prime Minister John Key and his Finance Minister, Bill English, have promised a zero Budget on Thursday, with little or no new spending - which will keep debt under control and see the Crown's books return to surplus by 2014-15. But last night, Mr Shearer ...  

Whatever figures Finance Minister Bill English unveils in his fourth budget on Thursday, the most important thing to remember is that this is the easy bit. We might still be in for a government surplus by 2014/15, or Mr English might hedge that target with ...  

A new legislative framework for the issuance of covered bonds by New Zealand registered banks will provide greater clarity for investors and depositors, Finance Minister Bill English says. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Covered Bonds) Amendment Bill ...  

Finance Minister Bill English took a swipe at the plethora of government websites in 2009, saying that by some counts the number of .govt.nz sites had mushroomed to about 600. Web developers ranged in size from the likes of Datacom, which employs more than ...  

No one, except Finance Minister Bill English, has a crystal ball to predict what tax measures might be introduced in the Budget next Thursday. However, there is no shroud of secrecy over the likely changes. We know the broad objectives of the government ...  

The New Zealand dollar climbed from a six-month low as European Union leaders meet amid talk Greece could leave the eurozone and ahead of Bill English's budget. The New Zealand dollar fell as low as 74.54 US cents overnight, from 75.24 cents on Wednesday at 5pm.  

True to his word Bill English has produced a Budget that shows the Government making it back to surplus by 2014/15 and he deserves some credit for doing so. But to get there in face of a flat economy and an economic meltdown in Europe he has had to do some ...  

Finance Minister Bill English confirmed the spend would total "around 2%" of the proceeds from the partial sale of selected state assets - up to $7 billion. The costs were for advertising, PR, legal, banking, call centres and other administrative charges.  

About 50,000 New Zealanders have left to Australia - and now more could be expected, he said. "John Key and Bill English claim this Budget is about giving Kiwis 'confidence in uncertain times'. That's just a slogan from a couple of confidence tricksters ...  

Garner and Espiner will be crossing LIVE to Parliament as the Minister of Finance, Bill English, delivers his Budget. They will be joined by commentators on economics and politics, including business writer Fran O’Sullivan (NZ Herald) and economist Dr ...  

Finance Minister Bill English may hike the excise on tobacco and alcohol and further tighten rules on property investment to help bridge the $640 million shortfall in his pledge to return to surplus in 2015. Treasury forecasts for next Thursday's Budget ...  

Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan last night unveiled a A$1.5b (NZ$1.9b) surplus. New Zealand Finance Minister Bill English will unveil his Budget in a fortnight, with no net new spending and facing revenue streams that have fallen $1.5b behind forecast.  

Bill English has delivered his fourth Budget this afternoon. Overview: New spending of $4.4 billion over the next four years. This will be paid for by $4.39 billion of savings and new revenue initiatives. Savings coming from education, welfare and transport.  

The city council appears to be coming under increasing pressure to consider a selloff. Finance Minister Bill English told Parliament on Wednesday the council could follow the Government's lead in its partial asset sales programme as it had "financial ...  

John Key was the subject of name calling after he transferred a question about the economy to Finance Minister Bill English. Russel Norman had expected to ask Mr Key during Question Time about a statement the Prime Minister had made that he preferred the ...  

Finance Minister Bill English has targeted a wafer-thin surplus by 2012-15 in his Budget announcement today. That surplus goal has been set at just $197 million in 2014-15 but is forecast to climb steeply to be over $2 billion the next year and then hit an ...  

May 24 (BusinessDesk) – Finance Minister Bill English has charted a path back to surplus by 2015 by hiking the excise on tobacco, giving the tax department sharper teeth and deferring the start of auto-enrolments to the KiwiSaver scheme. The government ...  

Finance Minister Bill English said the University of Otago report, which analyzed changes in income and deprivation from 2002 to 2009, confirmed "substantial income mobility over the period, with many New Zealanders moving in and out of different income bands."  

The app, called 'NZ Budget', can be downloaded to Android phones, iPhones, and tablets. Finance Minister Bill English said the app is part of the Government's wider plan to make public services more innovative. "This is an example of a government agency ...  

Sounds very much like a zero-budget policy Bill English would approve of. A 'zero budget' doesn't actually mean 'zero new spending', points out John Hartevelt, particularly as welfare and pension costs are set to increase irrespective of the Government's ...  

Questions are being asked about the grasp Finance Minister Bill English has on his portfolio. It follows a parliamentary exchange between Green Party co-leader Russel Norman and Mr English over partial asset sales and the impact they'll have on the current ...  

Cuts are blessings, crumbs are caviar, revenge is commonsense, and everyone will come out better off in 2014. Bill English is a rat-cunning politician and nobody believes the nice-guy act any more. He is a tough Tory cut-purse and this Budget will show it.  

It is not the first time Bill English has reached for the ramp-up-the-revenue lever. Last year, for example, he slapped a tax on employers' KiwiSaver contributions; a naked tax grab. This year will see changes to student allowances and faster repayment of ...  

Finance Minister Bill English confirmed the spend would total "around 2%" of the proceeds from the partial sale of selected state assets - up to $7 billion. The costs were for advertising, PR, legal, banking, call centres and other administrative charges.  

Budget 2012 invests in building an innovative and productive economy that sells more to the world, supports more jobs, and delivers better public services while getting back to fiscal surplus, Finance Minister Bill English says. "It takes the next steps in ...  

The New Zealand dollar climbed from a six-month low as European Union leaders meet amid talk Greece could leave the eurozone and ahead of Bill English's budget. The New Zealand dollar fell as low as 74.54 US cents overnight, from 75.24 cents on Wednesday at 5pm.  

Finance Minister Bill English's push for an early return to surplus in today's Budget has overwhelming support, with a survey showing 60 per cent rate it as the top priority. Today's Budget is expected to hit smokers and high income earners in the pocket ...  

Returning the Government's books to surplus has become a symbol of economic management and credibility. That is due in no small part to Bill English's adoption of the target in the past year as some kind of fiscal El Dorado. Gone is the phrase that ...  

WELLINGTON, May 24, 2012 (AFP) - - Key figures from the 2012-13 New Zealand budget, unveiled by Finance Minister Bill English on Thursday: DEFICIT: New Zealand is forecast to post a deficit of NZ$7.90 billion (US$5.90 billion) in 2012-13, down from NZ$8.4 ...  

Finance Minister Bill English says the cost of the new app was funded through reduced printing costs. The budget app, called NZ Budget, will work on Android phones and tablets, iPhones, and iPads. It will allow users to read the Budget speech and key ...  

Relatively small announcements – in terms of spending - around welfare, education and health have managed to grab the headlines and fuel debate, and there is continuing speculation about what Finance Minister Bill English may have up his sleeve More ...  

Bill English's 'Suck it up Budget' plucks a little from most Kiwis' pockets to help the Finance Minister reach his $197 million surplus by 2014/2015. But not sufficient to spike major outrage. Managing this trick is not an easy feat. But the Government has ...  

The Government has signalled other changes will be included in Finance Minister Bill English's fourth Budget, including a rise in the excise tax on tobacco and possibly alcohol to raise more revenue and cut back on consumption a key plank of the Maori Party's agenda.  

Bill English's 'Suck it up Budget' plucks a little from most Kiwis' pockets to help the Finance Minister reach his $197 million surplus by 2014/2015. But not sufficient to spike major outrage. Managing this trick is not an easy feat. But the Government has ...  

Christchurch's homeless are pleading for help on the eve of Bill English's zero Budget. Residents say they are now desperate 15 months after the city's deadly quake. The Geddis' Bexley home was destroyed in the February quake and they have been on the move since.  

Returning the Government's books to surplus has become a symbol of economic management and credibility. That is due in no small part to Bill English's adoption of the target in the past year as some kind of fiscal El Dorado. Gone is the phrase that ...  

If Bill English fails to include such measures, he will have missed yet another opportunity to capitalise on green growth opportunities, says Greenpeace New Zealand. Around the world, more money is now being invested in clean energy generation (1), than ...  

Questions are being asked about the grasp Finance Minister Bill English has on his portfolio. It follows a parliamentary exchange between Green Party co-leader Russel Norman and Mr English over partial asset sales and the impact they'll have on the current ...  

There are ominous warning signs in all of this for Finance Minister Bill English and Prime Minister John Key as they continue to stake their political future on balancing the Government books by 2014-2015. The rebellion of the Northern European public is ...  

NEW Zealand Finance Minister Bill English yesterday handed down a budget targeting a slightly reduced deficit of $6 billion in the financial year 2012-13, and seeking to almost double the pace of growth to 2.6 per cent in 2012-13. The sale of up to 49 per ...  

Finance Minister Bill English announced Thursday. In the televised delivery of the annual Budget to Parliament, English said the government would keep a tight rein on public spending and debt, while improving public services, especially in health ...  

OPINION: Bill English's fourth Budget pinches the pennies, raids nearly every piggy bank and even plunders the Government's rainy-day fund. No-one, it seems, is safe – even kids with an after-school job have been frisked for extra revenue to help fill ...  

Jia Qinglin (L), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), meets with New Zealand's acting Prime Minister Bill English during Jia's visit in Wellington, New Zealand, April 16, 2012. (Xinhua/Yao ...  

Labour wants a meeting with Acting Prime Minister Bill English after he defended the Government's right to veto legislation that would increase paid parental leave to six months. Debate on the issue was sparked after Labour MP Sue Moroney's member's bill ...  

WELLINGTON, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese top political advisor Jia Qinglin held talks with New Zealand acting Prime Minister Bill English on Monday afternoon. The two sides vowed to further promote their ties facing its 40th anniversary. Conveying Premier ...  

Chinese top political advisor Jia Qinglin held talks with New Zealand acting Prime Minister Bill English on Monday afternoon. The two sides vowed to further promote their ties facing its 40th anniversary. Conveying Premier Wen Jiabao's greeting to New ...  

Chinese top political advisor Jia Qinglin held talks with New Zealand acting Prime Minister Bill English on Monday afternoon. The two sides vowed to further promote their ties facing its 40th anniversary. Conveying Premier Wen Jiabao's greeting to New ...  

Finance Minister Bill English said Labour's approach for bipartisan talks on paid parental leave looked like "a bit of a stunt" and was unlikely to be taken up. He also said there was no difference between himself and Prime Minister John Key on the issue.  

Right in Finance Minister Bill English's backyard, Dipton School will be one of the beneficiaries of $7.6 million committed to the Enviroschool project in this year's Budget - although English himself does not appear to see it as worthwhile spending.  

Bill English's Budget is being described as an exercise in juggling the figures. Our political editor Barry Soper says the Finance Minister has taken with one hand and given with the other. There's $4.4 billion worth of spending, but Mr English achieves ...  

The Budget Bill English delivered yesterday had something to say about the past, much to say about the future, but not much about the present. It required a close reading of supporting documents to discover the figures for the coming year: forecast growth ...  

With the second consecutive budget of near-zero new spending to be unveiled next month, the government was also considering legislation changes to limit spending increases to population growth and inflation rates, Finance Minister Bill English said.  

"Kiwi families are fast learning not to rely on the promises of John Key and Bill English. The HLFS figures show 9,000 more people became unemployed in the March quarter, an increase of 100 per day. Joblessness rose by 12,000, nearly 1,000 per week.  

Labour leader David Shearer is seeking a meeting with Finance Minister Bill English over a bill extending paid parental leave from 14 weeks to 26 weeks. Mr English yesterday continued to defend his decision to veto the bill at its third reading ...  

English had joined the National Party in 1980, and had served in administrative capacities for party branches both in Southland and in Wellington. In 1990 he stood as the National candidate in Wallace, the Southland electorate that encompassed ...  

English had joined the National Party in 1980, and had served in administrative capacities for party branches both in Southland and in Wellington. In 1990 he stood as the National candidate in Wallace, the Southland electorate that encompassed ...  

"These statements are consistent with preliminary budget forecasts which show a $1 billion deterioration since the Budget Policy Statement in February," New Zealand Finance Minister Bill English said. Returning to surplus is important because ...  

The Government has signalled other changes in Finance Minister Bill English's fourth Budget, including raising the excise tax on tobacco, and possibly alcohol, to gather more revenue and cut consumption – a key plank of the Maori Party's agenda.  

OPINION: An austerity Budget? Don't be silly, Finance Minister Bill English says. "I think that's a ridiculous way to describe what a whole lot of governments are doing, and it's certainly nothing to do with what we're doing," he said yesterday.  

The Government has signalled other changes in Finance Minister Bill English's fourth Budget, including raising the excise tax on tobacco, and possibly alcohol, to gather more revenue and cut consumption – a key plank of the Maori Party's agenda.  

Probate Judge Bill English was unable to attend, so he sent a representative, Butch Brock. The unanimous theme used by the participating agencies that planned the proclamation this year was The Power of One. Sometimes we think, as one person ...  

Mr Key said Bill English's fourth Budget would be "a very measured and responsible Budget." He said there was enough headroom in the forecasts, yet to be finalised, to be sure they would reach their target of a surplus by in the 2014 - 15 year.  

"We are on track to post an operating surplus in 2014-15, when we will start bringing down debt to prudent levels," Finance Minister Bill English said in his budget speech. The size of the projected surplus is smaller than the government's ...  

School board member Dick Mammen offered an apology—of sorts—Tuesday for his outburst directed at schools activist Bill English two weeks earlier. Mammen offered the kind of conditional apology that’s become popular among elected officials ...  

Opelika Mayor Gary Fuller and Lee County Probate Judge Bill English prayed for the city and the county, while local religious figures offered their prayers for the state, the nation and the world. The theme of this year’s prayer event was ...  

"The Government is making significant new investment in priority areas, while at the same time keeping a tight rein on growth in spending and public debt," Finance Minister Bill English said in a statement. Budget forecasts showed budget ...  

Andrew Coleman, Joey Pieroni, Bill English, Bill Corsiatto and Tom Cummins finished fifth. “It was just great,” said Maurer, who played in his first PGA Tour event last summer. “From my standpoint, I get to see a lot of people I only get ...  

Q+A, 9-10am Sundays on TV ONE. Repeats of Q will screen on TVNZ7 at 9pm Sundays and 9am and 1pm on Mondays. Thanks to the support from NZ ON Air. I think that's a bit of an overreaction. Most New Zealanders would think the students are ...  

Bill English, CEO of Mindsharp, and Ben Curry, managing partner of Summit 7 Systems, host a free webinar on Friday May 18, 2012, titled “Plotting a Course for SharePoint in the Enterprise.” Maple Grove, MN, United States., May 14, 2012 ...  

"The Maori Party have lobbied us hard to make further changes, but you'll just have to wait and see until May 24." Finance Minister Bill English was also quiet on the matter, saying "I'm not ruling anything in or anything out".  

There will be more new investment in science and innovation, although this did not feature as prominently as in Mr Key's previous pre-Budget speeches. The Budget is to be delivered by Finance Minister Bill English on May 24.  

However Finance Minister Bill English is hammering Labour for promises it made in 1999 to cut the deficit. "The Labour party at the time campaigned to halve the current account deficit and they ended up doubling it."  

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Bill English says some parts of our tax system are outdated - but there's no one big measure in that area. He says it will just be small areas that most people won't even notice.  

Is that an ominous sign with respect to Mr John Banks that the assurances are not being accepted by the Prime Minister?" Bill English says he knows nothing about that.