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The Labour government must immediately recommit to funding the new Melling Interchange after Stuff reported today that the project is at risk, National List MP based in Hutt South, Chris Bishop says.
“Hutt residents will be in disbelief at hearing the news that funding for Melling is again at risk. The project is critical for the future of the Hutt Valley and locals were told by Labour MPs all through 2020 that the project was fully-funded and due to commence in 2022.
“The government announced in January 2020 that Melling would be fully-funded as part of the NZ Upgrade Programme, but now there are news reports that the Minister will not commit to all projects announced as part of the package.
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Hutt Valley High School’s board of trustees chairman Hamish Bowen says problems at the school have been ignored by the Ministry of Education for years.
Hutt Valley High School’s mouldy buildings did not become a priority for the Ministry of Education until classrooms were forced to close, the school’s board of trustees chairman says. This week the Lower Hutt school announced hundreds of senior students would have to spend half their time learning from home next term after toxic mould was found in several learning spaces. Thirteen classrooms and a dance studio have now been closed because they are unsafe.
National MP Christopher Luxon hits back at critics of Christians in public life in his maiden statement in Parliament.
Taxpayers are paying to rent two of the seven properties in the portfolio of National MP Christopher Luxon, who is among more than a dozen MPs that use Parliamentary accommodation allowances to effectively rent property from themselves. MPs from outside the Wellington region are allowed to claim a capped accommodation allowance to cover their living costs in the city. Most use it to rent flats or hotel rooms, but more than a dozen MPs purchase Wellington accommodation and claim the allowance – effectively renting their Wellington accommodation from themselves.
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