Maori programme review

Deputy State Services Commissioner Tony Hartevelt has been called in to review Tekau Plus to see if the Maori business development programme has spent taxpayer's money appropriately.

Mr Hartevelt - with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Maori businesswoman Whaimutu Dewes - will decide whether Tekau Plus, set up to develop 10 Maori businesses earning $10 million in export revenue within a decade, provided value for money for the $2 million it received from October 2007 until last November.