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Treasurer Bill English said today papers from Treasury showed that the Government needed to keep a careful control over new spending.

Treasurer Bill English said Labour's claim that its industry and competition policies would encourage the country's brightest and best to stay defied logic when Labour also planned to increase taxe

Treasurer Bill English said today National's calculations of the cost of Labour's promises had flushed out Dr Cullen's clever distinctions on spending.

Treasurer Bill English said today Labour now needed to explain whether it had abandoned debt repayment as a key plank of economic policy.

Treasurer Bill English questioned today whether Labour leader Helen Clark was at odds with her finance spokesman over economic issues.

Treasurer Bill English said today that Helen Clark's comments on changing the Reserve Bank's Policy Targets Agreement (PTA) created uncertainty over monetary policy and could unsettle the financial

Treasurer Bill English welcomed today's announcement of changes to Trans-Tasman investment rules, and said New Zealand businesses would benefit by being able to invest more freely in Australia.

Treasurer Bill English today released figures showing projected changes to Vote: Police over the next five years.

Treasurer Bill English announced today that a long-standing debt of $14 million owed by Peru had been forgiven.

Treasurer Bill English said today the Labour Party's 'say nothing, be nothing' approach did not constitute an election debate.

Treasurer Bill English said today the Government's position on the sale of assets had not changed.

Treasurer Bill English said Labour was showing its true colours with its determination to move backwards on ACC.

The Treasury paper on Monetary Union reported in the Dominion this morning is a Treasury think piece, not advice prepared for Government Mr Birch said this morning