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Details of all the budget cost items that fall under the Treasury's 'Transport' category in the 2026 Budget
11th Jun 26, 9:13am
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This table outlines the New Zealand Government's planned Transport spending for the 2026/27 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$.
| Actual 2021/22 | Actual 2022/23 | Actual 2023/24 | Actual 2024/25 | Estim 2025/26 |
Budget 2026/27 | % | |
| NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | ||
| 24.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Bad Debt Provision | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Social Leasing Scheme Trial | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 418.4 | 122.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Maintaining International & Airfreight Capacity | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 1.7 | 4.3 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Reinstatement of the South Island Transport Corridors | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 127.1 | 71.6 | 89.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Protection of Transport Sector Agency Core Functions | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | Transport Connectivity with Isolated Communities | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 26.8 | 11.3 | 12.7 | 0.9 | 0.0 | Regional State Highways | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 2.2 | 5.3 | 68.0 | 31.3 | 0.0 | Community Connect Programme | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 30.4 | 33.7 | 37.5 | 40.6 | 0.0 | SuperGold Card | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 30.6 | 76.7 | 84.4 | 0.0 | Eastern Busway Project | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 127.7 | 17.6 | 18.7 | 138.3 | 0.0 | COVID-19 - NLTF | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 325.9 | 477.9 | 606.1 | 754.6 | 0.0 | Capital Investment Package - Funding for Crown assets | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 5.5 | 4.3 | 0.8 | 2.7 | Chatham Islands Shipping | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 3.4 | Emergency Ocean Response Capability | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 98.3 | 30.2 | 26.3 | 12.2 | 4.6 | Tuawhenua Provincial Growth Fund - Transport Projects | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 23.6 | 7.1 | Ngauranga to Petone Shared Pathway Project | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 6.1 | 7.4 | Capital Expenditure | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 2.9 | 15.6 | 15.0 | 29.7 | Retaining and Recruiting Bus Drivers | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 15.9 | 38.7 | 32.9 | Improving Resilience of the Roading Network | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 54.8 | 76.3 | 163.2 | 81.6 | 56.8 | Policy advice, ministerial servicing, governance, planning, infrastructure | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.1 | Membership of International Organisations | 1.1 | 0.0% |
| 1.5 | 0.3 | 4.5 | 2.4 | 6.8 | Joint Venture Airports | 2.5 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12.7 | Supporting a Chatham Islands Replacement Ship (2026 - 2028) | 3.3 | 0.0% |
| 7.2 | 7.2 | 9.8 | 8.7 | 8.9 | Accident or Incident Investigation and Reporting | 9.2 | 0.1% |
| 419.1 | 1,564.1 | 10.6 | 9.5 | 9.2 | Road User Charges Investigation, Enforcement & Refunds | 9.3 | 0.1% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.7 | Coastal Shipping Resilience Fund | 14.5 | 0.1% |
| 7.4 | 11.7 | 14.8 | 17.1 | 14.5 | Health and Safety at Work Activities | 14.6 | 0.1% |
| 12.1 | 13.8 | 35.2 | 14.1 | 13.6 | Maritime & Aviation Security & Safety | 20.0 | 0.2% |
| 3.7 | 20.5 | 0.0 | 88.1 | 33.0 | Civil Aviation Authority | 27.6 | 0.3% |
| 25.6 | 25.7 | 27.2 | 28.8 | 29.8 | Weather Forecasts and Warnings | 31.4 | 0.3% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10.0 | 2026 Severe Weather Event | 41.0 | 0.4% |
| 39.0 | 28.5 | 21.5 | 38.5 | 143.0 | Housing Infrastructure Fund | 51.5 | 0.5% |
| 0.0 | 0.5 | 4.2 | 3.8 | 22.0 | Electrification and decarbonisation projects | 57.0 | 0.5% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 92.8 | Public Transport Concessions | 74.4 | 0.7% |
| 46.5 | 51.5 | 52.5 | 74.7 | 81.9 | Search and Rescue Activities | 92.5 | 0.8% |
| 134.6 | 369.7 | 313.2 | 63.3 | 115.0 | Clean Vehicle Scheme | 115.0 | 1.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 947.9 | 434.5 | 360.8 | North Island Weather Events | 149.0 | 1.4% |
| 1,531.1 | 1,917.2 | 1,730.4 | 1,369.0 | 3,977.5 | Rail | 1,441.3 | 13.1% |
| 46.3 | 537.9 | 307.3 | 66.8 | 1,962.9 | NZ Transport Agency | 2,225.0 | 20.2% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,646.0 | 2,023.3 | Government Policy Statement on Land Transport Loan (2024 -2028) | 2,346.1 | 21.3% |
| 3,540.5 | 3,118.4 | 4,840.9 | 3,963.3 | 3,917.7 | National Land Transport Programme | 4,294.7 | 39.0% |
| 7,054 | 8,562 | 9,456 | 9,059 | 12,991 | Total Spending | 11,021 | 100% |
| Less: Recoveries | |||||||
| -60.0 | -68.1 | -67.0 | -69.9 | -72.4 | Fuel Excise Duty Refunds | -80.7 | -1.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Dividend Income | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 151.3 | 125.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Miscellaneous receipts | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Vested Asset Revenue | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | Road User Charge transaction fee | 0.4 | 0.0% |
| 25.4 | 12.3 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 8.6 | Proceeds from the sale of New Zealand Railways properties | 7.5 | 0.1% |
| 9.6 | 10.8 | 13.7 | 14.2 | 8.4 | Northern Gateway Toll Road Revenue | 8.4 | 0.1% |
| 25.1 | 170.9 | 103.5 | 80.7 | 160.5 | Infringements | 169.4 | 2.1% |
| 234.2 | 236.1 | 232.3 | 286.8 | 393.9 | Motor Vehicle Registration | 484.0 | 6.0% |
| 1,839.6 | 1,414.3 | 1,839.1 | 2,036.3 | 2,091.9 | Road User Charges | 2,310.5 | 28.4% |
| 2,225.7 | 1,902.3 | 2,123.8 | 2,348.0 | 2,591.2 | Total Transport | 2,899.6 | 35.7% |
| 2,226 | 1,902 | 2,124 | 2,348 | 2,591 | Net Transport | 8,121 | 100% |
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Sources: You can download the data behind these tables from the NZ Government website here.
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