{"id":573258,"date":"2026-08-19T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573258\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:00:09","slug":"reviewer-appointed-to-probe-second-immigration-it-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573258\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviewer appointed to probe second Immigration IT project"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Public Service Commission has appointed a reviewer into another Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment IT project, this time to look at its programme to modernise Immigration New Zealand’s systems and services.<\/p>\n

The Our Future Services (OFS) programme is [ https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/politics\/657277\/eyes-turn-to-immigration-s-new-it-project-after-it-misses-first-milestone<\/p>\n

a $336 million, seven-year plan] to make visa processing more efficient, mitigate the risks of technology and service failures, provide proactive and sophisticated risk management, and improve customer and user experience.<\/p>\n

Following the launch of a review into the Biometric Capability Update project, including whether officials misled ministers<\/a>, Immigration Minister Erica Stanford asked the commission to look at the broader OFS programme.<\/p>\n

Public Service Commissioner Sir Brian Roche said the assurance review would provide confidence on cost, governance, management, reporting, and delivery of expected benefits.<\/p>\n

“It is important that significant public sector programmes are subject to appropriate scrutiny and assurance. This review will help provide that assurance,” he said.<\/p>\n

Roche has now appointed David Hosking to lead the review. He said Hosking was a specialist in providing assurance over multi-year technology transformation delivery programmes with budgets greater than $100 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Public Service Commission has appointed a reviewer into another Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment IT project,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-573258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573258","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=573258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}