When the Finance and Expenditure Committee returned to work today, grilling Finance Minister Nicola Willis on her Budget Policy Statement and Treasury’s HYEFU, there was a slight change in line-up.
The committee’s usual chair, Stuart Smith, was not in the chair. The MP, who has represented the Kaikōura electorate for a decade, had been replaced by first-term Upper Harbour MP Cameron Brewer. A vote on the new chair is set to take place this morning. Brewer is acting chair until that vote.
Brewer was not even a member of the committee, often known by its abbreviation FEC, and a member of the Justice Committee and deputy chair of the Governance and Administration Committee. The reshuffle is significant as the chair of FEC is often one of the last jobs an MP will do before a Prime Minister elevates them to a role in the executive.
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The reshuffle is significant as the chair of FEC is often one of the last jobs an MP will do before a prime minister elevates them to a role in the executive.
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