MBIE chief denies attempt to mislead Parliament over failed $35m project

Statement On Further Issues Concerning The Biometric Capability Upgrade (BCU) Project

MBIE previously advised Ministers, the Education and Workforce Committee, and New Zealanders in June that the project costs to be written off were around $33 million. T

MBIE chief denies attempt to mislead Parliament over failed $35m project

The chief executive of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has accepted the ministry got things wrong when it did not disclose information to MPs about a cancelled IT project earlier this year.

MBIE officials grilled by Parliament watchdog over failed $33m border security project

MBIE’s chief executive has told Parliament’s Privileges Committee that his officials did not deliberately mislead a select committee about the failed $33m Immigration Biometric Upgrade project.

Will MBIE be held on contempt?

The Herald reports: Ministry officials are denying they deliberately misled a Parliament select committee by not revealing an immigration IT project had been terminated while being questioned about its progress.  Appearing before Parliament’s Privileges Committee today, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) chief executive Nic Blakeley and former Immigration New Zealand (INZ) head Alison… […]