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Details of all the budget cost items that fall under the Treasury's 'Transport' Category in the 2025 Budget
7th Jun 25, 10:55am
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This table outlines the New Zealand Government's planned Transport spending for the 2025/26 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$.
| Actual 2020/21 | Actual 2021/22 |
Actual 2022/23 | Actual 2023/24 | Estm 2024/25 |
Budget 2025/26 | % | |
| NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | ||
| 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Crash Analysis | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Licensing Activities | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 2.9 | 24.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Bad Debt Provision | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Social Leasing Scheme Trial | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 2.2 | 1.5 | 3.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Transponders Rebate Scheme | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 30.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Eastern Busway Project | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 392.4 | 427.4 | 125.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Maintaining International & Airfreight Capacity | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 30.4 | 1.7 | 4.3 | 0.8 | 0.0 | Reinstatement of the South Island Transport Corridors | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 103.0 | 134.8 | 71.6 | 89.2 | 0.0 | Protection of Transport Sector Agency Core Functions | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | Transport Connectivity with Isolated Communities | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 64.3 | 26.8 | 11.3 | 12.7 | 0.9 | Regional State Highways | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 2.2 | 5.3 | 68.0 | 36.5 | Community Connect Programme | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 30.2 | 30.4 | 33.7 | 37.5 | 40.8 | SuperGold Card | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 727.6 | 127.7 | 17.6 | 18.7 | 138.3 | COVID-19 - NLTF | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 267.7 | 325.9 | 477.9 | 606.1 | 869.3 | Capital Investment Package - Funding for Crown assets | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | Capital Expenditure | 0.3 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.5 | 4.3 | 2.9 | Chatham Islands Shipping | 0.5 | 0.0% |
| 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 | Membership of International Organisations | 1.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.3 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 4.5 | 5.0 | Joint Venture Airports | 4.9 | 0.0% |
| 6.1 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 9.8 | 8.7 | Accident or Incident Investigation and Reporting | 8.9 | 0.1% |
| 196.4 | 98.3 | 30.2 | 26.3 | 12.2 | Tuawhenua Provincial Growth Fund - Transport Projects | 10.3 | 0.1% |
| 4.2 | 419.1 | 1,564.1 | 10.6 | 10.5 | Road User Charges Investigation, Enforcement & Refunds | 10.6 | 0.1% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 4.2 | 4.3 | Public Transport Bus Decarbonisation | 13.0 | 0.1% |
| 7.4 | 7.4 | 11.7 | 14.8 | 17.1 | Health and Safety at Work Activities | 14.5 | 0.1% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.9 | 15.6 | 24.2 | Retaining and Recruiting Bus Drivers | 20.5 | 0.2% |
| 24.7 | 25.6 | 25.7 | 27.2 | 28.8 | Weather Forecasts and Warnings | 29.8 | 0.2% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 15.9 | 88.4 | Improving Resilience of the Roading Network | 29.8 | 0.2% |
| 0.0 | 3.7 | 20.5 | 19.7 | 110.3 | Civil Aviation Authority | 32.1 | 0.3% |
| 0.1 | 12.1 | 13.8 | 15.4 | 20.3 | Maritime & Aviation Security & Safety | 33.0 | 0.3% |
| 4.5 | 39.0 | 28.5 | 21.5 | 131.5 | Housing Infrastructure Fund | 50.0 | 0.4% |
| 127.2 | 54.8 | 76.3 | 163.2 | 91.1 | Policy advice, ministerial servicing, governance, planning, infrastructure | 59.0 | 0.5% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Public Transport Concessions | 77.4 | 0.6% |
| 44.3 | 45.0 | 48.4 | 52.5 | 87.5 | Search and Rescue Activities | 85.3 | 0.7% |
| 0.0 | 134.6 | 369.7 | 313.2 | 115.0 | Clean Vehicle Scheme | 115.0 | 0.9% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 947.9 | 682.4 | North Island Weather Events – Road Response and Reinstatement | 278.6 | 2.2% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 250.0 | 750.0 | NLTF Borrowing Facility for Short-Term Advances | 750.0 | 5.8% |
| 12.0 | 29.6 | 555.8 | 162.2 | 194.4 | Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency | 1,144.7 | 8.9% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2,026.9 | Government Policy Statement on Land Transport Loan (2024 -2028) | 2,270.7 | 17.7% |
| 1,183.9 | 1,531.1 | 1,917.2 | 1,730.4 | 1,568.3 | Rail | 3,881.2 | 30.2% |
| 3,737.9 | 3,540.5 | 3,097.2 | 4,812.8 | 3,871.3 | National Land Transport Programme | 3,910.3 | 30.5% |
| 6,974 | 7,054 | 8,562 | 9,456 | 10,938 | Total Spending | 12,831 | 100% |
| Less: Recoveries | |||||||
| -67.6 | -60.0 | -68.1 | -67.0 | -73.0 | Fuel Excise Duty Refunds | -75.4 | -1.8% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 20.0 | Dividend Income | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 151.3 | 125.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Miscellaneous receipts | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | Road User Charge transaction fee | 0.4 | 0.0% |
| 22.7 | 25.4 | 12.3 | 2.1 | 7.3 | Proceeds from the sale of New Zealand Railways properties | 2.5 | 0.0% |
| 11.3 | 9.6 | 10.8 | 13.7 | 8.4 | Northern Gateway Toll Road Revenue | 8.4 | 0.1% |
| 0.2 | 25.1 | 170.9 | 103.5 | 134.6 | Infringements | 182.6 | 2.1% |
| 231.4 | 234.2 | 236.1 | 232.3 | 298.4 | Motor Vehicle Registration | 461.5 | 5.4% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Vested Asset Revenue | 1,400.0 | 16.3% |
| 1,930.2 | 1,839.6 | 1,414.3 | 1,839.1 | 2,018.9 | Road User Charges | 2,172.2 | 25.2% |
| 2,129 | 2,226 | 1,902 | 2,124 | 2,415 | Total Transport | 4,228 | 49.1% |
| 4,845 | 4,828 | 6,659 | 7,332 | 8,523 | Net Transport | 8,604 | 100.0% |
You can get back to the main page that summarises all government spending here >>
Sources: You can download the data behind these tables from the NZ Government website here.
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