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How many funding applications for new providers were considered by the TEC Assessor for the 2025 Investment Round and for each new provider that the TEC Assessor recommended declining what was the name of the provider, the amount that was applied for and the reasons why it was recommended for a decline?

Answered Question 12813 (2026)
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Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

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  • How many funding applications for new providers were considered by the TEC Assessor for the 2025 Investment Round and for each new provider that the TEC Assessor recommended declining what was the name of the provider, the amount that was applied for and the reasons why it was recommended for a decline?

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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.