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What financial assistance, if any, will the Government provide to councils to meet transition costs, and will any such assistance be available to councils placed in the Back Stop process?

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Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

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  • What financial assistance, if any, will the Government provide to councils to meet transition costs, and will any such assistance be available to councils placed in the Back Stop process?

Answered by

Hon Simon Watts

Member for North Shore · National Party · Minister of Local Government

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The Government is still assessing Head Start proposals. An aspect of the deliverability criterion is to set out what assistance that council groupings would need from the Government to deliver their proposal. Policy decisions regarding the design of the backstop have yet to be made.