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On how many occasions, if any, during the past five years has the TEC’s DCE Delivery reversed a TEC funding panel decision to decline full funding for a provider and for each such occasion, what was the organisation, how much had been applied for and what amount was ultimately approved?

Answered Question 12806 (2026)
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Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

Question

  • On how many occasions, if any, during the past five years has the TEC’s DCE Delivery reversed a TEC funding panel decision to decline full funding for a provider and for each such occasion, what was the organisation, how much had been applied for and what amount was ultimately approved?

Answered by

Hon Penny Simmonds

Member for Invercargill · National Party · Minister for Tertiary Education

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I am advised by the TEC that collating this material would require substantial collation. I do not consider it to be in the public interest to divert staff from their work to undertake a substantial collation exercise.