Act's David Seymour says a unit for verifying the costs of pre-election political policy promises - would add more bureaucracy.
Act and New Zealand First torpedoed a proposal by Finance Minister Nicola Willis to publicly fund such a service.
National declined Labour’s offer of support.
Seymour claims his Party managed to release a fully costed alternative Budget without it.
He says he doesn't like the idea that people need bureaucracy to tell them what is good or accurate.
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