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Details of all the budget cost items that fall under the Treasury's 'Transport' Category in the 2023 Budget
9th Jun 23, 10:05am
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This table outlines the New Zealand Government's planned Transport spending for the 2023/24 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$.
| Actual 2018/19 | Actual 2019/20 | Actual 2020/21 | Actual 2021/22 | Estimate 2022/23 | Budget 2023/24 | % | |
| NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | ||
| 31.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Auckland Transport Package Loan | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Milford Sound / Piopiotahi Aerodrome Operation and Administration | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Crash Analysis | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 4.8 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Licensing Activities | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | Social Leasing Scheme Trial | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.5 | Transport Connectivity with Isolated Communities | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 113.1 | 38.1 | 30.4 | 1.7 | 5.6 | Reinstatement of the South Island Transport Corridors | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.8 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 8.1 | Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Transponders Rebate | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.5 | Supporting a Chatham Islands Replacement Ship | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 80.0 | Ngauranga to Petone Shared Pathway Project | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 200.0 | Eastern Busway Project | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 39.1 | 392.4 | 427.4 | 207.5 | Maintaining International & Airfreight Capacity | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 411.0 | 1,618.8 | Fuel Excise Duty Refund Administration | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | Membership of International Organisations | 0.9 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 125.0 | 727.6 | 127.7 | 85.3 | COVID-19 - NLTF | 1.0 | 0.0% |
| 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 7.8 | Joint Venture Airports | 1.5 | 0.0% |
| 18.8 | 27.7 | 62.8 | 26.8 | 22.3 | Regional State Highways | 4.0 | 0.1% |
| 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 8.1 | 10.1 | Road User Charges Investigation, Enforcement & Refunds | 6.8 | 0.1% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.3 | Public Transport Bus Decarbonisation | 9.0 | 0.1% |
| 5.5 | 5.5 | 6.1 | 7.2 | 7.2 | Accident or Incident Investigation and Reporting | 9.3 | 0.1% |
| 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 10.1 | 9.7 | Maritime & Aviation Security & Safety | 14.3 | 0.2% |
| 7.1 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 11.7 | Health and Safety at Work Activities | 14.8 | 0.2% |
| 7.1 | 7.4 | 2.9 | 24.8 | 18.0 | Bad Debt Provision | 18.0 | 0.2% |
| 23.9 | 24.6 | 24.7 | 25.6 | 25.7 | Weather Forecasts and Warnings | 27.2 | 0.4% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 13.0 | Retaining and Recruiting Bus Drivers | 32.1 | 0.4% |
| 29.4 | 30.7 | 30.2 | 30.4 | 36.1 | SuperGold Card | 36.1 | 0.5% |
| 17.1 | 124.3 | 196.4 | 98.3 | 36.4 | Tuawhenua Provincial Growth Fund - Transport Projects | 36.9 | 0.5% |
| 0.0 | 33.6 | 12.0 | 34.2 | 35.4 | Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency | 45.4 | 0.6% |
| 102.8 | 9.0 | 4.5 | 39.0 | 103.9 | Housing Infrastructure Fund | 50.0 | 0.6% |
| 16.5 | 18.2 | 44.3 | 45.0 | 49.8 | Search and Rescue Activities | 50.2 | 0.6% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Improving Resilience of the Roading Network | 55.0 | 0.7% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.7 | 3.4 | Civil Aviation Authority | 60.1 | 0.8% |
| 0.0 | 13.0 | 103.0 | 127.1 | 123.7 | Protection of Transport Sector Agency Core Functions | 97.6 | 1.3% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 8.5 | Community Connect Programme | 109.0 | 1.4% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 134.6 | 500.2 | Clean Vehicle Discount Scheme | 175.8 | 2.3% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 250.0 | Cyclone Gabrielle: Operating Cost Pressure Funding | 275.0 | 3.5% |
| 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | Capital Expenditure | 282.5 | 3.6% |
| 44.9 | 94.0 | 127.2 | 54.8 | 133.2 | Policy advice, ministerial servicing, governance, planning, infrastructure | 384.5 | 5.0% |
| 0.0 | 250.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 750.0 | NLTF Borrowing Facility for Short-Term Advances | 750.0 | 9.7% |
| 13.0 | 37.1 | 267.7 | 325.9 | 706.2 | Capital Investment Package - Roads, Walking and Cycling | 1,037.4 | 13.4% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2,546.8 | National Land Transport Programme Loan 2021 – 2024 | 1,120.7 | 14.4% |
| 707.3 | 964.4 | 1,183.9 | 1,531.1 | 2,148.0 | Rail | 2,217.9 | 28.6% |
| 3,615.7 | 3,662.4 | 3,739.4 | 3,543.6 | 707.0 | National Land Transport Programme | 3,191.8 | 41.2% |
| 4,768 | 5,523 | 6,974 | 7,054 | 10,488 | Total Spending | 10,115 | 130% |
| Less: Recoveries | |||||||
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 151.3 | 0.0 | Miscellaneous receipts | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 226.8 | 10.2 | 231.4 | -60.0 | -65.7 | Fuel Excise Duty Refunds | -82.9 | -1.1% |
| 3.8 | 0.2 | 22.7 | 0.5 | 0.4 | Road User Charge transaction fee | 0.4 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 25.4 | 5.0 | Proceeds from the sale of New Zealand Railways properties | 7.5 | 0.1% |
| 10.9 | 10.2 | 11.3 | 9.6 | 8.4 | Northern Gateway Toll Road Revenue | 8.4 | 0.1% |
| 0.3 | -67.9 | 0.2 | 234.2 | 234.8 | Motor Vehicle Registration | 232.6 | 3.0% |
| 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 25.1 | 185.7 | Infringements | 252.7 | 3.3% |
| 0.3 | -67.9 | 0.2 | 1,839.6 | 1,358.7 | Road User Charges | 1,940.3 | 25.0% |
| 242 | -115 | 266 | 2,074 | 1,727 | Total Transport | 2,359 | 30.4% |
| 4,525 | 5,638 | 6,708 | 4,979 | 8,761 | Net Transport | 7,756 | 100% |
You can get back to the main page that summarises all government spending here>>
Sources: https://www.budget.govt.nz/budget/2023/data-library.htm#forecasts
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