Services should be delivered on need not race - govt

The Government has issued a strongly worded directive to the public sector reminding them services must be delivered based on need rather than race. The letter fulfills commitments secured by ACT and New Zealand First during coalition negotiations with National last year. It said the government is concerned that public servants have been using race as proxy for need and it wants to ensure services are not arbitrarily allocated on the basis of ethnicity, Finance Minister Nicola Willis spoke to Lisa Owen.