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Budget 2012- Summary of all spending plans

Budget 2012- Summary of all spending plans

This table outlines the New Zealand Government's planned spending for the 2012/13 budget year.

Actual spending for the previous four years is on the left and includes, for the sake of comparison, the previous Labour Government's final spending in 2008/09.

The numbers are drawn together from data released by the Minister of Finance on May 24, 2012.

Links to the primary sources used, from Treasury's website, can be found at the bottom of the page.

Click on any heading to drill down to what makes up these numbers.

Figures for each allocation are in millions of NZ$.

Actual
 2008/09
Actual
2009/10 
Actual
2010/11 
Actual
2011/12
  Budget
2012/13
%
NZ$m NZ$m NZ$m NZ$m   NZ$m  
      618.0  Cant. Earthquake Auth 90.7 0.1%
 102.9  113.8  123.7 120.8  Industrial relations    
192.6 208.4  215.9 208.1  Immigration    
243.9 479.4 1,577.2 945.2  Energy    
211.0 194.1 219.2 218.2  Special Interests 222.9 0.3%
26.0 49.4 272.0 179.7  Communications    
467.9 459.3 489.5 380.4  Arts & Culture 378.5 0.5%
 110.3 334.6 412.8 457.7  Treaty of Waitangi    
         Primary Industry 749.5 0.9%
686.4 737.6 789.1 776.5  Science & Research 833.4 1.0%
         Economic Development 1,011.5 1.2%
908.7 1,075.3 1,618.2 1,019.9  Housing 1,023.3 1.3%
900.4 962.0 997.0 1,013.7  Foreign Policy 1,056.1 1.3%
879.4 1,000.2 1,157.4 1.275.5  Government 1,075.9 1.3%
864.5 814.6 897.0 887.7  Environment 1,341.3 1.6%
         Labour 1,494.7 1.8%
1,582.6 964.5 1,072.5 1,019.7  Industry    
1,130.9 1,194.9 1,197.1 1,190.0  Justice 1,702.8 2.1%
2,585.6 2,858.6 3,007.3 2,882.2  Law & Order 3,073.8 3.8%
2,858.3 3,299.9 3,078.5 3,039.0  Defence 3,293.8 4.0%
3,855.5 3,490.5 3,479.1 3,911.4  Transport 3,986.4 4.9%
17,094.2 11,719.6 13,568.4 10,841.7  Customs, Finance & Tfr's 11,940.7 14.6%
11,126.2 11,770.4 12,078.8 12,028.1  Education 12,453.9 15.3%
11,906.3 12,722.2 13,329.3 13,613.0  Health 14,124.7 17.3%
19,452.6 21,718.3 22,807.0 22,872.6  Social Welfare 21,811.0 26.7%
=====  =====  =====     =================  =====  --- 
$75,390.4 $76,053.8 $78,944.4 $79,499.1  Total Expenditure $81,664.8 100.0
$184,132 $188,546 $197,699  $204,551  GDP (nominal, per RBNZ) $213,750 E
40.9% 40.3% 39.9% 38.9%  Govt spending - % of GDP 38.2%
and this compares with taxes collected as follows:        
$59,684.3 $55,899.4 $58,189.5  $62,100.6  Total tax collected $65,383.9  
        (click on this link for details)    
             
Not all the difference between tax collected and expenditure needs to be borrowed. The Crown has other sources of revenue than tax. The biggest single reason is that significant portions of National Super payments are pre-funded in the Super Fund.

Sources: You can download the data behind these tables from the Treasury website here >>

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