Kerre Woodham: Bureaucrats have used incentives to bribe people for years, but does it work?

Act’s Deputy leader Brooke van Velden, gave the Government’s Willow Jean Prime an uncomfortable few moments in Parliament yesterday.

She questioned her on the fact that pregnant mothers are receiving $50 Prezzy cards simply for turning up to pregnancy assessments, and then when the child is born, the six week assessment.

The catch? You have to identify as Maori to get the Prezzy card. Van Velden said the funding for this devise of policy has been taken from Community Services card funding.

Simon Watts: $9,000 to Help Gangs Complete Census Forms

Labour has spent more than $1 million trying to encourage people to fill in their Census forms, including more than $9,000 playing host to gang members, National’s Statistics spokesperson Simon Watts says.

“This is the second Census in a row under Labour that has failed to reach its target and has become an expensive and embarrassing failure,” Mr Watts says.

“At $317 million, this Census is going to cost more than double the 2018 one and the data is going to be poor quality like last time.