Chief Executive’s Report

I am pleased to provide the 28th review of the business and activities of the Trust to the year ending 31 December 2019.

Darryl Stevens MNZM

2019 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Trust’s 27th Annual General Meeting was held on Wednesday 30 April in the Grand Hall, Parliament House. The Rt Hon Trevor Mallard MP, Speaker of the House of Representatives, presided as President of the Trust.

The meeting was chaired by Peter Griffiths. The meeting ratified changes to the corporate membership of the Trustee Council and Board as outlined in the Chairman’s message.

Peter Griffiths, Chair of the Trust Board was re-elected for a further term of three years. Chris Litchfield, Chief Executive of Coco Cola Amatil who had been seconded to the Board in 2018 to fill a casual vacancy was elected to the trustee council and to the Board for a term of three years.

Following the formal business, Dr Deborah Russell MP and Angie Warren-Clark MP, who had completed Business Attachments with Fonterra Co-operative Group and Foodstuffs New Zealand Ltd in 2018, respectively, received their Associate Members certificates. Louisa Wall MP an existing Associate Member was presented with her certificate following completion of an Attachment with GlaxoSmithKline.

Tim van de Molen MP with Peter Griffiths

Clayton Mitchell, Board Member receiving his Associate Members certificate

TRUST MEMBERSHIP

NEW CORPORATE MEMBERS

Corporate members were invited to nominate staff representatives for 4 seminars and to attend two additional events during the calendar year. In addition, Members of Parliament were invited to meet with corporates at all four Parliamentary seminar lunches and two Trust hosted events. The Trust’s Corporate membership stands at 72 members as at 31 December 2019.

This year we welcomed 4 new Corporate Members:

Varian Medical Systems Pfizer New Zealand Limited Dominion Breweries Limited Auckland International Airport Limited

(re-joining having been a foundation member)

The resignations of Abano Healthcare Group Ltd, Dell EMC NZ Corporation Ltd, IBM New Zealand Ltd, Microsoft New Zealand Ltd, Qantas Group and Steel & Tube Holdings Ltd all took effect from 31 December 2019.

NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

The following Members of Parliament were appointed Associate Members following the successful completion of their first Business Attachments:

Andrew Bayly Clayton Mitchell Tim van de Molen Hamish Walker

Nicola Willis Dr Duncan Webb Member for Hunua List Member Member for Waikato Member for Clutha Southland List Member Member for Christchurch Central National Party New Zealand First National Party National Party

National Party Labour Party

This brings the number of Associate Members in the 52nd Parliament to 63 as at 31 December 2019 and includes two Board members, Clayton Mitchell MP and

EVENTS

Tim van de Mollen MP.

Invitations are extended to a small group of Chief Executives or senior Leaders from amongst our Corporate membership for each of the dinners and they continue to provide valuable opportunities for maintaining contact between the Trust, the senior management of our Corporate membership and Parliamentary leaders.

The President of the Trust hosted one dinner on 11 September, for the Opposition Parties. 10 Corporate Chief Executives and/or leadership team representatives attended the dinner. The Parliamentary guests were; David Seymour MP, Leader of the ACT Party, Barbara Kuriger, Senior Opposition Whip and Andrew Bayly, Party Spokesperson for Building & Construction and Revenue, National Party.

Typical seminar lunch where attendees get the opportunity to meet MPs informally

Corporates that attended the dinner are listed at Appendix 2.

COMMUNICATIONS, SOCIAL MEDIA AND PUBLICATIONS

Social Media Our new webpage went live with a soft launch in mid- year. The site provides us with a fresh professional look. Further development work and enhancements will be carried out to the site in 2020.

Our social media presence was established through Facebook and LinkedIn and we are now in the process of growing our presence through these platforms.

COMMS Intern Rory McGuire, a third-year media and marketing student at Massey University joined the Secretariat in March as our first COMMS Intern. His expertise in social media and the internet made him indispensable and we were sorry to have to farewell him mid - November following the completion of the academic year.

Publications All current publications have been updated in both content and design and were rolled-out in the first half of 2019. These publications are available on-line or in hard-copy by request.

Corporate membership and the schools funding application forms have also been re-designed in order to provide more robust information to aid the decision-making processes.

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

One Business Overview was held with Roger Dennis as the guest speaker.

Roger Dennis who works as a consultant in foresight, innovation and large scale change provided the audience with a thought-provoking presentation.

His role sees him working with both government bodies and companies across Asia, Europe and Australasia.

He likes to discuss why forming strategy without knowing about the future is like pouring coffee without a cup and why a strategy without an innovation capacity is akin to walking very slowly on the same spot.

Tim van de Molen on Attachment with Sealord – NZBPT News June 2019

BUSINESS STUDY PROGRAMMES

Our Business Study Attachments programme is a key pillar of the Trust’s operations.

11 Members of Parliament completed their Attachments during the year and a further 3 are in the process of undertaking attachments to be completed in 2020.

We acknowledge and warmly thank the following corporate members who hosted Members of Parliament during the year:

Air New Zealand Ltd Christchurch International Airport Ltd Deloitte Ltd Johnson & Johnson NZ Ltd Meridian Energy NZ Steel Ltd Ports of Auckland Russell McVeagh Sealord Group Ltd SBS Bank St John Willis Bond & Co Ltd

It is clear from the feedback received from Members of Parliament undertaking attachments, that the experience in doing so is very worthwhile and much valued. The challenge is to fit the required time commitment into already busy and ever-changing schedules.

Hosting Corporate members continue to be very accommodating in coping with these pressures and their cooperation and assistance in providing opportunities for Members of Parliament to spend time with their businesses is highly appreciated.

EDUCATION

SCHOLARSHIPS & TRUST STUDY PRIZES

The Trust has had a longstanding relationship with the Victoria University of Wellington through the provision of both scholarships and prizes in politics.

The Scholarship was first established in 2010 for students enrolled in an Honours or Master study in either Political Science, International Relations or the School of Government.

The 2018 Scholarships were the last to be awarded under the current arrangements. The University identified two equally deserving scholars and so the decision was taken to jointly award the Scholarship between Annie MacDonald and Kathleen Robertson.

Annie MacDonald undertook research on the experience of the Green Party and their role governing New Zealand, drawing inspiration from her experience interning at Parliament with the Party’s co-leader Hon James Shaw. In addition, Annie undertook research on the role of Parliament in the Land and Water forum to address freshwater issues.

Kathleen Robertson completed Honours in Political Science and wrote an essay about increasing the representation of disabled people in Parliaments, comparing the New Zealand Election Access Fund Bill with approaches used in other countries. Kathleen also undertook an internship at Parliament interning with two New Zealand Green Party Members of Parliament.

Following the review of tertiary scholarships and prizes in 2018, the Board is pleased that engagement is now well under-way with our new partner universities - Auckland, Otago and Waikato where prizes in politics and or public policy will be offered.

Our partnership with the University of Canterbury, which dates back to 2014, has been retained. Canterbury awarded the first Politics and Public Policy prize to Jessica Harnett Kikstra, their top 2018 Master of Policy & Governance student. Her dissertation was entitled Collaborative Water Governance in Canterbury and involved fieldwork with both ECAN and farmers from the Canterbury region.

A feature of the new prizes is that winners are invited to Wellington to either participate in a parliamentary seminar or have engagement with the Trust. Jessica elected to attend our last parliamentary seminar of the year where she received her award from the Chair of the Board in the presence of Corporate and Associate members.

University of Canterbury prizewinner

TRAVEL FUND ASSISTANCE FOR SCHOOL VISITS TO PARLIAMENT

This scheme has been in effect since July 2015. In order to qualify for funding assistance, schools must undertake the 90 - minute “How Parliament Works” educational tour organised by the Parliament Education Services.

A little funding from the Trust can make all the difference and students who would not normally be given the opportunity to visit their Parliament are able to do so. The Trust is also equally impressed with how many of the rural and small - town schools are supported by their communities through fundraising ventures.

In 2019 the Trust provided grants totalling $60,345 to 48 schools enabling 1,034 students and 69 parents / caregivers to visit Parliament. A full schedule of all schools receiving funding is given at Appendix 5.

Pupils of schools in receipt of funding will often write to the Trust expressing their appreciation for the funds that enabled them and their school to visit Wellington. A small sample of feedback received are:

“Thank you for the funds that provided us with a range of opportunities. I personally enjoyed getting to see our Prime Minister in the debating chamber. She acknowledged and waved to us. It was a cool experience and I learnt about how they get to ask the questions and prepare.” Lachlan, Meeanee School

“The rules were explained to us and we got to ask questions but while we were doing that I could not stop staring at the mace, it looked like pure gold I don’t know if it was but it looked like gold.” Hamish, Meeanee School

“Thank you, NZ Business and Parliament Trust for helping Ngākau Māhaki to get to Wellington. We really enjoyed it in the Parliament because we got to watch a real live debate. My favourite part personally, was when we got to see the past Prime Ministers of New Zealand. I think we all enjoyed being in the parliament with our guide William.” Caiden, Ngākau Māhaki

“Thank you for the money you gave Limehills School for the year 7s Wellington camp, we really appreciated it. We had so much fun with getting a tour around the Beehive and being able to meet our MP. We learnt things such as the fire that happened in the library many years ago and about the Queen and the carpets and so much more.” Tahlia, Room 8

Omakere School Visit participating in “How Parliament Works” programme As in previous years, the Trust ran a competition for the Triennial Youth Parliament which was open to all Youth MPs and members of the Youth Press Gallery. Youth MPs could either write an essay, deliver a speech or make a video on the topic “Choose one big issue facing our society and describe what the Government can do to better enable businesses to make a difference on this issue”.

The competition attracted a high number of entries. The overall standard of entry was of a very high calibre resulting in the judges awarding four highly commended awards in addition to the three monetary prizes.

The judging panel, for the first time, included corporate member representation.

Shine Wu, winner

Winner Shine Wu formerly Newlands College, Wellington and now studying at Victoria University of Wellington and Dukes University USA. Shine was the Youth MP for Brett Hudson, List Member, National Party. Shine’s essay topic was ‘Inspiring Innovation - Building Aotearoa’s New Entrepreneurs’

1st Runner-Up William Wood of Palmerston North Boys High School and Youth MP for Ian McKelvie, Member for Rangitikei.

2nd Runner-Up Fiona Wu, a member of the Youth Press Gallery and studying at Auckland University.

Highly Commended James Macey, Youth MP for Jonathan Young, Member for New Plymouth Sophie Dixon, Youth Press Gallery Kate Morris, Youth Press Gallery Shaneel Lal, Youth MP for Hon Jenny Salesa, Member for Manukau East

The awards were presented by the Rt Hon Trevor Mallard MP, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Trust President and Peter Griffiths, Board Chair at a reception hosted by the Hon Peeni Henare, Minister of Youth and attended by all Youth Members of Parliament and Press Gallery members.

PARLIAMENTARY SEMINARS – STUDY PROGRAMMES

Parliamentary Seminars are central to the Trust’s purpose in creating a learning environment whereby representatives and employees of our corporate members are able to come to Parliament and be addressed by Ministers, parliamentarians and officials operating at the core of our parliamentary and executive government systems.

This year we hosted 4 seminars attended by a total of 108 participants from 42 corporate members.

The Prime Minister headed an illustrious group of Ministers and parliamentarians to address corporate participants. A full list of all our speakers is given at Appendix 5.

This year saw the introduction of a new one-day seminar entitled the Machinery of Government and Parliament - Taking a closer look. The seminar has been designed to provide our corporate clients with the unique opportunity to engage and interact with expert officials as well as learn through practical approaches to Government and Parliament.

The inaugural attendees at the Machinery of Government and Parliament seminar

The seminar was created in part in response to the feedback received from course participants attending our Exercising Government through Parliament seminar and in part to ensure that Executive Government and Public Policy were being covered.

While this new seminar replaces the half-day Select Committee seminar, Select Committees including roleplaying and the passage of legislation through Parliament are incorporated into the programme as is the opportunity to view Parliament in action.

Seminar attendees were equally appreciative that so many of our Members of Parliament and in particular Associate Members were able to attend the seminar lunch that precedes Oral Questions - Questions to Ministers in the House, giving them the opportunity to speak informally with parliamentarians.

Some of the comments received from attendees at this year’s Seminars were:

“The opportunity to hear first-hand from the country’s leaders, the quality of the speakers, the information provided by them, the frankness and openness of the speakers and the appreciation of the fact that, what is a very busy and full day, keeps to time.”

“The seminar was well organised. Great topics. Fantastic to get time from these speakers. It also provides a great networking opportunity between members and corporates.”

SEMINAR SPEAKERS

THANK YOU

Firstly, I wish to acknowledge and thank the Ministers and Members of Parliament who generously undertake speaking engagements informing our corporate members on Parliament and government. The Trust could not achieve its key purpose without your support.

I would like to record my thanks to the Speaker’s Office, the Clerk of the House and staff of the Office of the Clerk, Cabinet Office, Department of Internal Affairs policy team and the Parliamentary Service (in particular Executive Assistants) for their assistance and support throughout the year. The Trust relies heavily on you all to help us achieve our mission.

Thank you too to our Corporate Liaison officers, without whose cooperation our programmes could not be implemented. I also acknowledge

the excellent work undertaken by Kim Mantell of Mantell Brands for work relating to re-designing our publications and the new web page and to Brent Pearson of B J Pearson Ltd for financial services. Brent has been associated with the Trust for some twentyeight years and following a Board decision at the end of 2019 making changes to our financial management resulting in the appointment of a new accountancy firm to deliver those changes, Brent’s association with the Trust will cease in the first quarter of 2020.

Finally, my personal thanks to my colleagues Vasoula Kappatos, Tassie Wong and Rory McGuire for their contribution to the work of the Trust and who have successfully coped with a raft of ongoing changes.

Darryl M Stevens MNZM Chief Executive