{"id":495617,"date":"2026-06-25T23:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495617\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:03:10","slug":"laine-takes-niles-seat-on-economic-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495617\/","title":{"rendered":"Laine takes Niles\u2019 seat on Economic Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\">He was unopposed in an election to replace Deputy Andy Niles, who had to give up his seat when he joined Policy &amp; Resources as the replacement for Deputy Gavin St Pier.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\">Deputy Laine had also been tipped for Policy &amp; Resources at one time but his only committee seat previously had been on the Development &amp; Planning Authority, although he is also P&amp;R\u2019s IT adviser as it seeks to address the issues of overspends and contract failures in IT which have dogged the States in recent years.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\">Deputy Laine has a background in technology and entrepreneurship, having launched and run several businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was unopposed in an election to replace Deputy Andy Niles, who had to give up his seat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[138,336,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-495617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495617","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=495617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}