The conclusion is that the system is difficult for New Zealanders and businesses to navigate, especially when risks or conditions change. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen no organisation has full visibility or clear responsibility for the whole system, insights from delivering regulation are not always used to improve system design or legislation,\u201d the report said. <\/p>\n
It also shows there is \u201csignificant variation\u201d in the number of regulatory organisations that come under each minister, with some holding many more than others. <\/p>\n
Simeon Brown, who holds the health, energy and state-owned enterprises portfolios, has 32 regulatory organisations under him, with 28 in health. <\/p>\n
Many regulators come under minister Simeon Brown. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n
Seymour said the report revealed \u201ca twisted spaghetti of regulators who don\u2019t just cost money to fund, but suck up people\u2019s time and force others to give up completely\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis analysis shows hundreds of regulatory organisations operating under hundreds of acts, with multiple agencies often responsible for the same issue. This drives high costs, long delays and confusion, while weakening accountability.\u201d <\/p>\n
He said this report would be used by the Ministry for Regulation to \u201csupport a sustained programme to identify overlap, duplication and unnecessary complexity\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe ministry will maintain and progressively update the mapping ensuring it remains current, usable, and valuable over time. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis will help agencies review regulations they are responsible for, as required by the Regulatory Standards Act 2025. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis will drive change in the size of government and our mission to give taxpayers a fairer deal. Every dollar not wasted on bureaucracy is a dollar that can stay with the people who earned it or be spent on the frontline services New Zealanders actually rely on.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The conclusion is that the system is difficult for New Zealanders and businesses to navigate, especially when risks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[802,6284,52606,17309,82,43300,78,6722,130,117,111,43,139,69,3272,1118,624,640,15384,1560,312,16797,3953,131,1361,223,102958,5977,80],"class_list":["post-435870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-costs","tag-david","tag-drives","tag-exposed","tag-identified","tag-impacts","tag-in","tag-minister","tag-more","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-nzs","tag-of","tag-productivity","tag-regulation","tag-regulators","tag-report","tag-says","tag-seymour","tag-spaghetti","tag-than","tag-that","tag-the","tag-twisted","tag-which","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}