However, that amounts to cuts in spending of $300 million a year from what Labour proposed in its original plan and has seen a handful of yet to be announced policies axed.
In a further trimming of its spending plans Labour is no longer planning to adjust for inflation the approximately $1 billion a year in spending increases it earmarked to keep pace with rising costs in core Government services including health and education.
Finance spokesman David Parker said while Treasury had adjusted its revenue forecasts lower in the Prefu, Labour was maintaining its previously forecast increase in tax take from policies including its capital gains tax because they were conservative in the first place.
Leader David Cunliffe said Labour had retained all of its significant commitments including policies intended to help boost and diversify economic activity.
Given the deterioration in commodity prices including those for dairy and logs that had prompted the revisions outlined in the Prefu,"this investment is absolutely critical".
Among policy changes were the delay by six months of the introduction of free doctors visits and prescriptions for over 65s.
Mr Cunliffe said Labour was announcing its changes because"we want to be upfront with the public".
He hit out at the Government for not so far fully disclosing its plans for $1.5 billion a year cumulative spending increases outlined in the Budget.
"It is the right of voters to know what they are going to get for it ... it's the democratic thing to do."
- Adam Bennett of the NZ Herald
