Wellington, March 8 NZPA - Prime Minister John Key says New Zealand has more government agencies than a country its size needs and has signalled there could be several mergers to reduce their number.

Wellington, March 8 NZPA - Some public service mergers were likely to go ahead with resulting job losses, Prime Minister John Key said today.

Wellington, Feb 25 NZPA - More than 100 people, some carrying transistors tuned in to Radio New Zealand, turned up outside Parliament today to protest a funding freeze.

Wellington, Feb 15 NZPA - A directive from the Ministry of Education telling an opposition MP that information requests needed to be answered by the minister was a communications blunder, the ministry says.

Wellington, Dec 7 NZPA - Labour leader Phil Goff will face up to his caucus tomorrow to justify his controversial nationhood speech with party president Andrew Little the latest to raise concerns.

Wellington, Dec 4 NZPA - Some Labour MPs are unhappy with leader Phil Goff's "nationhood" speech and will question him over it at next week's caucus meeting, it was reported today.

Wellington, Nov 26 NZPA - There were errors in how an event hosted by National MP Paul Quinn and Work and Income was publicised, Ministry of Social Development (MSD) has found.

Wellington, Nov 23 NZPA - The State Services Commission has ordered an investigation into a Labour Party complaint about National MP Paul Quinn. However Mr Quinn, a list MP based in the Hutt South electorate, doesn't see what the fuss is about.

Wellington, Oct 28 NZPA - Former Treasury secretary Murray Horn has been appointed chairman of the advisory board for the new National Health Board (NHB), Health Minister Tony Ryall announced today.

Wellington, Oct 21 NZPA - The creation of a National Health Board has been well received, despite concern about the predicted 500 job losses it will cause.