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The Budget 2022/23 allocates more than $9 bln in the next year to address our transport sector issues. This is where it will be spent
2nd Jun 22, 9:40am
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This table outlines the New Zealand Government's planned Transport spending for the 2022/23 budget year.
Actual spending for the previous five years is on the left.
The numbers are drawn from Vote Transport.
Links to the primary source used, from Treasury's website, can be found at the bottom of the page.
Please note that some of the allocation titles have been shortened for the sake of space.
Figures for each allocation are in millions of NZ$.
| Actual 2017/18 | Actual 2018/19 | Actual 2019/20 | Actual 2020/21 | Estimate 2021/22 | Budget 2022/23 | % | |
| NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | ||
| 100.0 | 31.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Auckland Transport Package Loan | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Milford Sound / Piopiotahi Aerodrome Operation & Administration | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | Ministerial Servicing by the New Zealand Transport Agency | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | Crash Analysis | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 3.0 | 4.8 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 0.0 | Licensing Activities | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 38.8 | 337.2 | 0.3 | Maintaining Airfreight Capacity | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 250.0 | 0.0 | 750.0 | NLTF Borrowing Facility for Short-Term Advances | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | Membership of International Organisations | 0.9 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.5 | Capital Expenditure | 1.4 | 0.0% |
| 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 6.3 | Joint Venture Airports | 3.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 125.0 | 727.6 | 171.2 | COVID-19 - NLTF | 3.0 | 0.0% |
| 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 8.1 | Road User Charges Investigation, Enforcement & Refunds | 3.1 | 0.0% |
| 432.7 | 113.1 | 38.1 | 30.4 | 3.7 | Reinstatement of the South Island Transport Corridors | 3.8 | 0.1% |
| 5.0 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 2.9 | 26.0 | Bad Debt Provision - Vehicle Reg/Licences & Road User Charges | 4.0 | 0.1% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 2.2 | 5.5 | Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Transponders | 4.1 | 0.1% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Public Transport Bus Decarbonisation | 4.3 | 0.1% |
| 5.7 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 6.1 | 7.2 | Accident or Incident Investigation and Reporting | 7.2 | 0.1% |
| 7.4 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 16.9 | Health and Safety at Work Activities | 11.7 | 0.2% |
| 0.5 | 0.1 | 38.7 | 0.1 | 2.6 | Maritime & Aviation Security | 18.1 | 0.3% |
| 43.6 | 18.8 | 27.7 | 64.3 | 34.9 | Regional State Highways | 22.2 | 0.3% |
| 23.4 | 23.9 | 24.6 | 24.7 | 25.6 | Weather Forecasts and Warnings | 25.7 | 0.4% |
| 28.3 | 29.4 | 30.7 | 30.2 | 31.2 | SuperGold Card | 33.2 | 0.5% |
| 15.0 | 16.5 | 18.2 | 44.3 | 46.3 | Search and Rescue Activities | 46.8 | 0.7% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 33.6 | 12.0 | 55.0 | Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency | 47.3 | 0.7% |
| 0.0 | 17.1 | 124.3 | 196.4 | 112.3 | Tuawhenua Provincial Growth Fund - Transport Projects | 53.2 | 0.8% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 16.3 | Civil Aviation Authority Loans | 53.6 | 0.8% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 13.0 | 103.0 | 173.6 | Protection of Transport Sector Agency Core Functions | 149.5 | 2.1% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 129.5 | 467.6 | Maintaining international air services | 154.4 | 2.2% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 174.8 | Clean Vehicle Discount Scheme | 168.7 | 2.4% |
| 40.7 | 44.3 | 54.9 | 52.3 | 57.3 | Policy Advice | 176.1 | 2.5% |
| 0.0 | 102.8 | 9.0 | 4.5 | 98.9 | Housing Infrastructure Fund | 264.0 | 3.8% |
| 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 331.5 | Fuel Excise Duty Refund Administration | 322.1 | 4.6% |
| 37.6 | 13.0 | 37.4 | 267.7 | 406.8 | Capital Investment Package - Roads, Walking and Cycling | 790.5 | 11.3% |
| 893.1 | 707.3 | 964.4 | 1,183.9 | 1,787.4 | Rail | 2,111.9 | 30.1% |
| 3,371.4 | 3,615.7 | 3,662.4 | 3,737.9 | 4,110.5 | National Land Transport Programme | 4,750.4 | 67.6% |
| 5,017.0 | 4,767.8 | 5,522.8 | 6,973.6 | 8,929.4 | Total Transport | 9,234.0 | 131.4% |
| Less: Recoveries | |||||||
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 200.0 | Miscellaneous receipts | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| -65.2 | -66.1 | -67.9 | -67.6 | -48.5 | Fuel Excise Duty Refunds | -66.7 | -1.0% |
| 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | Road User Charge transaction fee | 0.4 | 0.0% |
| 10.5 | 10.9 | 10.2 | 11.3 | 8.4 | Northern Gateway Toll Road Revenue | 8.4 | 0.1% |
| 3.0 | 3.8 | 20.3 | 22.7 | 10.9 | Proceeds from the sale of New Zealand Railways properties | 26.2 | 0.4% |
| 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 22.1 | Infringements | 133.0 | 1.9% |
| 227.4 | 226.8 | 225.6 | 231.4 | 237.7 | Motor Vehicle Registration | 234.2 | 3.3% |
| 1,551.1 | 1,672.6 | 1,716.1 | 1,930.2 | 1,853.3 | Road User Charges | 1,873.7 | 26.7% |
| 1,727.5 | 1,848.7 | 1,904.9 | 2,128.6 | 2,084.1 | Total Recoveries | 2,209.1 | 31.4% |
| 3,289 | 2,919 | 3,618 | 4,845 | 6,845 | Net Transport | 7,025 | 100% |
You can get back to the main page that summarises all government spending here>>
Sources: https://www.budget.govt.nz/budget/2022/data-library.htm#forecasts
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