Inquiry reports

How the Thames-Coromandel District Council managed leasing arrangements for Council land in Whitianga

November 2009: Although our findings are of greatest interest to people in the Thames-Coromandel district, we note that most local authorities have extensive land holdings. Our findings from this inquiry reinforce the importance for all local authorities to have in place effective systems and processes to manage their land well on behalf of their communities...

Auditor-General's decision on parliamentary and ministerial accommodation entitlements

October 2009: In September, the Auditor-General received some requests to inquire into the way parliamentary and ministerial accommodation entitlements are administered and how they have been applied in relation to Hon Bill English. We gathered extensive background information on the two systems for administering accommodation entitlements and analysed their application to individual circumstances, including those of Mr English...

How the Ministry of Education managed the 2008 national school bus transport tender process

October 2009: Overall, the Ministry’s procurement approach was sound. No process is perfect, and we found a number of areas for improvement that we expect the Ministry to address in any subsequent bus tender processes...

Inquiry into immigration matters (Volume 1)

May 2009: Volume 1 of our inquiry into immigration matters, looking at visa and permit decision-making and other issues...

Inquiry into immigration matters (Volume 2)

May 2009: Volume 2 of our inquiry report about immigration matters. This volume deals with the public sector recruitment processes involving Mary Anne Thompson and related issues...

Inquiry into Christchurch City Council's five property purchases

January 2009, letter to Mr Tony Marryatt, Chief Executive of Christchurch City Council.

Inquiry into the West Coast Development Trust

August 2008: The Auditor-General decided in October last year to conduct an inquiry into the operations of the West Coast Development Trust (the Trust), after receiving information on the workings of the Trust, including allegations of conflicts of interest...

Inquiry into Dunedin City Council and Otago Regional Council's funding of the proposed stadium

September 2007: Letter advising of the outcome of our inquiry into the funding arrangements of the Dunedin City Council and Otago Regional Council for a new multi-purpose stadium proposed by the trustees of the Carisbrook Stadium Charitable Trust...

Queenstown Lakes District Council - regulatory and resource management services

September 2007: Letter advising of the outcome of our inquiry into decisions made by the Queenstown Lakes District Council and the council-controlled organisation that it established to provide regulatory and resource management services for the district...

Advertising expenditure incurred by the Parliamentary Service in the three months before the 2005 General Election

October 2006: In the three months before the General Election on 17 September 2005, the Auditor-General became concerned that electioneering material may have been paid for by the Parliamentary Service out of resources appropriated for MPs’ and parliamentary parties’ advertising...

Inquiry into certain allegations about Housing New Zealand Corporation

June 2006: The Board of Housing New Zealand Corporation asked me to consider undertaking an inquiry after allegations made by a former contractor of the Corporation appeared in the news media. The allegations were potentially serious, and warranted looking into...

Inquiry into funding arrangements for Green Party liaison roles

April 2006: This report sets out the outcome of our inquiry into the funding arrangements for the Green Party Ministerial liaison and relationship roles...

Inquiry into the Ministry of Health's contracting with Allen and Clarke Policy and Regulatory Specialists Limited

December 2005: The findings in this report are a reminder that public entities need to manage contracting for services to ensure two outcomes. The first is that they are receiving value for money. The second is that the risks of actual or perceived impropriety, especially those associated with concurrent or former employment with the entity, are managed in a transparent way...

Inquiry into certain aspects of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa

December 2005: This audit and inquiry followed a request for assurance from the then Associate Minister of Education (Tertiary Education). There were concerns about possible conflicts of interest in transactions worth large sums of money. Other issues emerged as we began our inquiry...

Cambridge High School's management of conflicts of interest in relation to Cambridge International College (NZ) Limited

October 2005: The findings of this inquiry highlight the need for schools to carefully consider the ethical dimensions of conflicts of interest...

Inquiry into the sale of Paraparaumu Aerodrome by the Ministry of Transport

September 2005: Although the sale of the Aerodrome took place more than a decade ago, the conduct of the sale provides a useful case study of a sale of a Crown-owned asset...

Electricity Commission: Contracting with service providers

July 2005: This report describes events leading up to the decision to appoint contractors, and analyses the practices followed. It also sets out our expectations of public entities involved in sole source procurement in circumstances where contestable procurement is impracticable...

Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology's management of conflicts of interest regarding the Computing Offered On-Line (COOL) programme

November 2004: The findings of this inquiry into how CPIT managed conflicts of interest regarding the Computing Offered On-Line programme emphasise the need for public entities to carefully consider the ethical dimensions of conflicts of interest...

NZ On Air's funding of NZ Idol

November 2004, letter to Deborah Coddington MP.

Working for Families Communications Strategy

September 2004, letter to Hon Murray McCully MP.