Wellington, June 2 NZPA - GST will not be increased from 15 percent, Prime Minister John Key told Parliament today.

Wellington, May 30 NZPA - The Government could be receptive to lowering investment screening thresholds for foreigners looking to buy assets here, Treasury Secretary John Whitehead said today.

Wellington, April 1 NZPA - The Government is continuing to soften up the public for changes to the rental property taxation regime with Treasury Secretary John Whitehead the latest to land a few blows about problems with it.

Wellington, Jan 29 NZPA - Treasury Secretary John Whitehead rejects the suggestion that he employs a bunch of bookish, chin-stroking, policy eggheads who spend their time sitting around dreaming up economic miseries.

Wellington, Jan 29 NZPA - Cutting the salaries of public service chief executives would create a domino effect for other public servants, State Services Minister Tony Ryall says.

Wellington, Jan 29 NZPA - Prime Minister John Key has described as "dumb and hypocritical" a suggestion by Labour leader Phil Goff that public service chief executives' salaries should be capped.

By Ian Llewellyn of NZPA Wellington, Oct 15 NZPA - Most top public servants received substantial pay rises ahead of the world recession bringing down a veil of austerity, State Services Commissioner Iain Rennie said today.

Wellington, Oct 7 NZPA - Richard Forgan has been appointed executive director of the National Infrastructure Unit, Treasury Secretary John Whitehead announced today.

Wellington, Sept 8 NZPA - A Treasury official's lost notebook, which revealed the Government was thinking about merging intelligence agencies, could also contain secrets concerning the Corrections Department and the police, Prime Minister John Key said today.

Wellington, Sept 8 NZPA - Prime Minister John Key says it was a Treasury official who dropped a notebook, containing secret information, that was later found by a journalist.