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Budget 2026/27 - Summary of all spending plans
30th May 26, 9:45am
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This table outlines the New Zealand Government's planned spending for the 2026/27 budget year.
Actual spending for the previous four years is on the left.
The numbers are drawn together from data released by the Minister of Finance on May 28, 2026.
Links to the primary sources used, from Treasury's website, can be found at the bottom of the page.
Click on any underlined heading to drill down to what makes up these numbers. Figures for each allocation are in millions of NZ$.
| Actual 2021/22 |
Actual 2022/23 |
Actual 2023/24 | Actual 2024/25 | Estimate 2025/26 | Budget 2026/27 | % | |
| NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | % | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Pike River Re-entry (old) | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 10.1 | 10.2 | 10.8 | 10.0 | 12.5 | Women | 14.7 | 0.0% |
| 14.7 | 16.8 | 16.2 | 16.6 | 17.4 | Serious Fraud | 17.4 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.1 | 16.6 | 18.5 | Regulation | 19.9 | 0.0% |
| 23.4 | 25.6 | 26.3 | 29.0 | 26.4 | Office of the Clerk | 31.0 | 0.0% |
| 21.5 | 25.7 | 29.5 | 27.4 | 30.2 | Parliamentary Counsel | 31.8 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12.5 | 47.1 | Social Investment | 59.2 | 0.0% |
| 32.5 | 45.4 | 47.9 | 48.5 | 55.1 | Ombudsmen | 61.4 | 0.0% |
| 193.7 | 208.0 | 963.2 | 1,117.4 | 72.2 | Prime Minister and Cabinet | 64.9 | 0.0% |
| 61.0 | 74.0 | 108.0 | 84.5 | 52.9 | Pacific Peoples | 65.3 | 0.0% |
| 146.6 | 153.6 | 163.0 | 125.4 | 124.2 | Sport and Recreation | 116.8 | 0.1% |
| 914.0 | 210.4 | 198.5 | 130.8 | 142.3 | Building and Construction | 121.8 | 0.1% |
| 65.4 | 70.3 | 72.1 | 92.8 | 92.7 | Public Service | 131.5 | 0.1% |
| 82.2 | 111.6 | 137.7 | 129.2 | 553.8 | Attorney-General | 136.8 | 0.1% |
| 91.4 | 101.7 | 111.2 | 110.2 | 112.1 | Security Intelligence | 142.2 | 0.1% |
| 118.0 | 138.9 | 152.9 | 158.5 | 184.6 | Audit | 193.4 | 0.1% |
| 149.6 | 153.0 | 126.6 | 124.3 | 159.9 | Forestry | 199.7 | 0.1% |
| 168.5 | 208.7 | 227.9 | 267.7 | 396.9 | Parliamentary Service | 270.3 | 0.1% |
| 248.1 | 396.1 | 260.0 | 219.5 | 256.0 | Statistics | 274.7 | 0.1% |
| 182.4 | 238.7 | 324.8 | 287.6 | 249.6 | Communications Security and Intelligence | 344.2 | 0.2% |
| 283.8 | 297.0 | 321.3 | 287.9 | 341.3 | Customs | 362.9 | 0.2% |
| 288.7 | 161.8 | 156.8 | 133.2 | 394.0 | Tari Whakatau | 409.8 | 0.2% |
| 542.0 | 579.9 | 469.5 | 437.9 | 473.9 | Arts, Culture and Heritage | 460.8 | 0.2% |
| 716.2 | 565.7 | 660.6 | 557.5 | 518.8 | Māori Development | 484.6 | 0.2% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Cities, Environment, Regions, and Transport | 523.1 | 0.2% |
| 372.5 | 378.4 | 340.7 | 353.8 | 428.4 | Lands | 575.2 | 0.3% |
| 689.2 | 804.4 | 852.2 | 771.0 | 858.1 | Conservation | 799.7 | 0.4% |
| 588.6 | 817.6 | 845.1 | 843.7 | 1,038.1 | Justice | 1,088.6 | 0.5% |
| 1,093.7 | 1,390.6 | 1,472.3 | 1,066.0 | 1,248.8 | Internal Affairs | 1,177.5 | 0.5% |
| 878.9 | 968.1 | 1,079.4 | 1,105.7 | 1,164.5 | Courts | 1,221.3 | 0.6% |
| 889.2 | 1,113.5 | 1,078.9 | 1,056.6 | 1,418.6 | Agriculture, Biosecurity, Fisheries and Food Safety | 1,342.5 | 0.6% |
| 1,430.3 | 1,475.5 | 1,597.0 | 1,463.3 | 1,622.9 | Oranga Tamariki | 1,702.2 | 0.8% |
| 1,501.8 | 1,680.1 | 2,028.2 | 1,689.5 | 1,824.1 | Foreign Affairs | 1,968.8 | 0.9% |
| 1,895.4 | 1,655.3 | 1,414.0 | 1,639.4 | 1,505.1 | Environment | 2,171.3 | 1.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11.2 | 2,595.0 | Disabled People | 2,963.9 | 1.3% |
| 2,386.4 | 2,708.9 | 2,807.0 | 2,977.7 | 3,160.2 | Police | 3,023.5 | 1.4% |
| 2,180.8 | 2,259.9 | 2,513.6 | 2,768.3 | 3,044.7 | Corrections | 3,173.8 | 1.4% |
| 2,651.8 | 2,865.5 | 3,088.8 | 3,222.3 | 3,521.4 | Labour Market | 3,690.9 | 1.7% |
| 3,392.4 | 3,351.6 | 3,454.8 | 3,362.7 | 3,459.6 | Business, Science and Innovation | 3,835.4 | 1.7% |
| 5,168.3 | 5,622.9 | 5,992.0 | 6,972.8 | 5,296.4 | Defence | 5,800.2 | 2.6% |
| 2,417.2 | 5,507.8 | 7,785.8 | 6,898.1 | 5,506.0 | Housing and Urban Development | 10,426.2 | 4.7% |
| 7,053.7 | 8,561.6 | 9,456.1 | 9,058.7 | 12,990.9 | Transport | 11,021.0 | 5.0% |
| 29,542.9 | 23,331.2 | 22,504.2 | 19,393.0 | 20,144.0 | Treasury & Finance | 21,734.0 | 9.9% |
| 26,440.0 | 26,627.9 | 27,134.9 | 28,369.1 | 31,510.9 | Health | 33,031.4 | 15.0% |
| 39,501.8 | 39,223.5 | 42,467.1 | 45,376.6 | 45,789.1 | Social Development | 48,375.2 | 22.0% |
| 19,681.9 | 20,424.4 | 22,757.1 | 23,068.8 | 23,843.8 | Education | 56,637.4 | 25.7% |
| 154,111 | 154,562 | 165,256 | 165,893 | 176,303 | Total Expenditure | 220,298 | 100% |
| 365.3 | 401.8 | 420.9 | 435.0 | 454.2 | GDP (nominal, per RBNZ) | 485.6 | |
| 42.2% | 38.5% | 39.3% | 38.1% | 38.8% | Govt spending as % of GDP | 45.4% | |
| and this compares with taxes collected as follows: | |||||||
| 124,684 | 131,818 | 141,760 | 143,294 | 145,195 | Total Revenue | 153,119 | |
The data in this table is net spending, after fee and charges revenues have been deducted from the gross expenditure planned.
Sources: You can download the data behind these tables from the NZ Government website here.
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