Nicola Willis
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1,461 appearances
27 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
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We've gone and tested that with detailed modelling.
We've had the former chief economist of the UK Competition Authority review that modelling in detail.
All of that analysis has been conclusive that for
In New Zealand, given how unusual our grocery sector is, this sort of a restructure would lead to benefits to the Kiwi shopper which would outweigh the costs.
Now that is a robust economic analysis, it's different from the reckons of others, but that is what the economics says.
Because what that analysis also says is you would be best given this is a significant change to test all of the implementation assumptions, to test the cost data, and to do that through a full discovery process.
By giving the Commerce Commission investigative powers and information gathering powers, they can ensure that an implementation plan is fully robust and then assess, well, having done all of that, does
Does it still stack up?
So I think we've come up with an elegant proposal which says don't have the politicians sitting around doing half back reckons.
Instead get a independent competition watchdog to do this approach and then if it makes sense, go ahead with it.
Because I wanted to make sure we'd done all of the analysis.
I first uh received a cost benefit analysis in October last year.
I then wanted to test it very thoroughly.
So we've had a range of independent experts test it.
We've enhanced the modelling.
We've checked the assumptions.
I then had a second version of the cost benefit analysis come to me in July.
I don't want to be a bullet of gate on this.
I think this needs to be thorough, it needs to be
is passionate and needs to be analytical.
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