Brian Fallow: Government debt target? What government debt target? 11 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM 6 minutes to read Grant Robertson with this week's Budget Policy Statement - complete with a cover photo he took himself. Photo / Mark Mitchell Grant Robertson with this week's Budget Policy Statement - complete with a cover photo he took himself. Photo / Mark Mitchell OPINION: Perhaps the most striking thing about the Budget Policy Statement Grant Robertson released on Tuesday was what it did not say. He has dropped any quantified target for net government debt. But this is not a case of drawing a veil over a profligate approach to fiscal policy.