Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones is crowing over cracking the target of creating more than 10,000 jobs through the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF). But National said the minister was being disingenuous, as these figures did not show the true number of jobs created or the breakdown of what was full time or contract jobs. Hagen Hopkins/Getty-Images Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones. However, it highlighted some shortcomings, most notably - that the figure was a count of people working on projects, not the number of jobs created. Little could not say exactly how many jobs had been created but said the fund was about more than that.

Source: Stuff August 03, 2020 20:26 UTC