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The New Zealand Business and Parliament Trust provides two basic programmes for its MPs and its corporate members:
Business Study Programmes. These programmes enable members to host MPs on an agreed programme of study based on the Trust’s study criteria. The MPs are required to make a commitment to spend from five to ten days spread over a 12-month period to study a business organisation firsthand, providing them with an overview of key business functions and encouraging their understanding of the contribution business makes to the NZ economy.
Extensions of the Business Study Programme scheme include:
Business Briefings for MPs , organised annually by the Trust, where all MPs from all parties in the House are invited to attend a Business Briefing presented by a key figure in the private or public sector. The aim of these annual Briefings is to enhance MPs’ understanding of the business world in general, to update them on changes and developments taking place in it and to learn something of the impact of political decisions on business.
Business Seminars for MPs are hosted once a year by a nominated corporate member of the Trust and are designed to provide MPs with an on-sight intensive one-to one introduction to a business organisation. The aim of these one-day seminars is to provide MPs with an opportunity to widen their knowledge of business in general and a specific organisation in particular.
Parliamentary Study Programmes. The objective of these programmes is to illustrate how Government is exercised through Parliament. Corporate members of the Trust are invited to send representatives to one of a series of three parliamentary seminars during the year. Each seminar can accommodate 40 people. These intensive one-day studies of the parliamentary system allow participants to hear from MPs and those associated with the day-to-day running of Parliament just how the system works.
Associated with the Parliamentary Study Programme scheme, the Trust organises Parliamentary Attachments for any representative of the corporate membership who has attended one of the Trust’s parliamentary seminars who wishes to take part in a two-day attachment to a selected Member of Parliament. The attachments include one day with the MP in his or her constituency and the second day in Parliament, enabling corporate representatives to learn something of the day-to-day work of an MP.
Membership :
we now have 49 members
Corporate Membership is open to all those enterprises who agree to support the Trust’s aims of advancing and encouraging business understanding of Parliament and parliamentarians’ understanding of business. The enterprise must also agree to commit time or organising study programmes for parliamentarians and to give time to their own personnel to benefit from reciprocal programmes.
The New Zealand Business and Parliament Trust enjoys an excellent sectoral base among its 49 member companies. The sectors represented by the membership include the manufacturing industry, law, telecommunications, energy, banking, pharmaceutical, financial services, primary industries, fishing, insurance, the motor industry, shipping, airlines and broadcasting.
The majority of the Trust’s corporate members are New Zealand owned but there are also some international affiliations, particularly British, European, American and Australian.
Each year the Trust shows its appreciation of the support given by its corporate membership by organising a series of exclusive dinners hosted by the Trust’s President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. These dinners are usually attended by a maximum of 12 people in the Speaker’s own apartment in Parliament House and aim to update chief executives on the Trust’s progress and performance.
Associate Membership is open to those MPs who complete a Business Study Programme.
The New Zealand Business and Parliament Trust is funded by corporate subscription.
The Trust is an educational charity and not a lobbying organisation and it is non-partisan. |
