This table outlines the New Zealand Government's planned spending for the 2018/19 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 17, 2018.
Links to the primary sources used, from Treasury's website, can be found at the bottom of the page.
Click on any heading to drill down to what makes up these numbers. Figures for each allocation are in millions of NZ$.
| Actual 2014/15 | Actual 2015/16 | Actual 2016/17 | Actual 2017/18 | Budget 2018/19 | % | |
| NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | ||
| 349.9 | 217.5 | - | - | Canterbury Earthquake Recovery (old) | - | - |
| 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.4 | Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment | 3.8 | 0.0 |
| 5.4 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 5.3 | Women | 5.4 | 0.0 |
| 9.2 | 9.1 | 9.5 | 11.2 | Serious Fraud | 9.8 | 0.0 |
| 8.6 | 8.9 | 9.3 | 10.9 | Pacific Peoples | 10.4 | 0.0 |
| - | - | - | 4.2 | Pike River Re-entry | 17.1 | 0.0 |
| 12.2 | 12.5 | 15.0 | 18.6 | Ombudsmen | 21.7 | 0.0 |
| 20.1 | 20.3 | 22.9 | 23.6 | Office of the Clerk | 22.6 | 0.0 |
| 18.6 | 19.2 | 21.8 | 23.3 | Parliamentary Counsel | 23.3 | 0.0 |
| 28.8 | 29.6 | 28.4 | 33.7 | Education Review Office | 30.1 | 0.0 |
| 40.7 | 41.4 | 44.0 | 64.8 | State Services | 60.0 | 0.1 |
| 56.8 | 61.2 | 66.8 | 68.8 | Attorney-General | 70.9 | 0.1 |
| 46.3 | 60.0 | 110.4 | 136.8 | Prime Minister and Cabinet | 76.7 | 0.1 |
| 44.8 | 50.2 | 57.1 | 68.6 | Security Intelligence | 81.8 | 0.1 |
| 89.5 | 84.2 | 89.2 | 89.2 | Sport and Recreation | 89.2 | 0.1 |
| 87.4 | 89.4 | 90.9 | 95.2 | Audit | 94.3 | 0.1 |
| - | - | - | - | Forestry | 138.5 | 0.1 |
| 86.8 | 132.9 | 114.0 | 138.6 | Communications Security and Intelligence | 153.3 | 0.1 |
| 122.0 | 143.5 | 156.3 | 209.0 | Statistics | 154.6 | 0.2 |
| 142.0 | 148.8 | 150.0 | 172.3 | Parliamentary Service | 155.7 | 0.2 |
| 192.3 | 193.3 | 197.5 | 219.3 | Customs | 230.6 | 0.2 |
| 399.2 | 227.5 | 299.6 | 251.7 | Defence | 314.6 | 0.3 |
| 214.0 | 240.9 | 291.8 | 328.7 | Maori Development | 316.4 | 0.3 |
| 283.2 | 274.6 | 326.6 | 300.4 | Arts, Culture and Heritage | 322.7 | 0.3 |
| 165.7 | 474.8 | 176.1 | 349.7 | Treaty Negotiations | 401.1 | 0.4 |
| 438.5 | 529.9 | 525.1 | 551.1 | Justice | 479.0 | 0.5 |
| 392.2 | 416.6 | 440.0 | 448.0 | Conservation | 491.1 | 0.5 |
| 442.1 | 441.8 | 456.3 | 478.2 | Foreign Affairs and Trade | 549.6 | 0.5 |
| 219.5 | 216.3 | 292.3 | 550.4 | Lands | 598.2 | 0.6 |
| 546.1 | 556.3 | 625.0 | 710.8 | Internal Affairs | 666.0 | 0.7 |
| 410.7 | 259.2 | 316.8 | 491.7 | Building and Housing | 732.9 | 0.7 |
| 629.9 | 703.9 | 719.3 | 1,014.4 | Agriculture, Biosecurity, Fisheries and Food Safety | 745.4 | 0.7 |
| 568.2 | 592.1 | 592.2 | 713.5 | Official Development Assistance | 768.4 | 0.8 |
| 643.7 | 673.5 | 690.8 | 751.2 | Courts | 776.4 | 0.8 |
| 254.7 | 295.7 | 442.8 | 955.2 | Environment | 813.3 | 0.8 |
| - | - | 156.6 | 884.3 | Oranga Tamariki | 951.9 | 0.9 |
| 1,595.7 | 1,626.3 | 1,679.9 | 1,775.3 | Police | 1,873.6 | 1.8 |
| 1,493.4 | 1,543.3 | 1,601.7 | 1,794.0 | Corrections | 1,965.7 | 1.9 |
| 1,360.5 | 1,532.7 | 1,704.3 | 1,877.5 | Labour Market | 2,004.1 | 2.0 |
| - | - | - | 2,358.5 | Social Housing | 2,772.3 | 2.7 |
| 1,963.7 | 2,068.2 | 1,934.3 | 2,491.3 | Business, Science and Innovation | 3,040.6 | 3.0 |
| 2,983.1 | 2,876.2 | 3,010.8 | 3,149.0 | Defence Force | 3,440.1 | 3.4 |
| 2,999.8 | 3,029.6 | 2,991.8 | 3,228.4 | Tertiary Education | 3,444.2 | 3.4 |
| 3,959.3 | 3,514.6 | 3,667.9 | 5,619.1 | Transport | 5,373.5 | 5.3 |
| 5,308.8 | 7,097.4 | 5,307.7 | 5,303.4 | Finance | 5,996.8 | 5.9 |
| 6,064.9 | 5,696.8 | 5,663.7 | 5,917.1 | Revenue | 7,223.1 | 7.1 |
| 10,243.6 | 10,741.7 | 11,094.7 | 11,777.4 | Education | 12,260.2 | 12.0 |
| 15,033.7 | 15,279.8 | 18,395.0 | 16,544.1 | Health | 18,225.4 | 17.8 |
| 23,221.3 | 23,978.9 | 24,861.5 | 22,908.4 | Social Development | 24,284.9 | 23.7 |
| 83,200.2 | 86,218.5 | 89,455.5 | 94,919.7 | Grand Total | 102,281.4 | 100.0 |
| 245,013 | 257,716 | 274,290 | 290,750 | GDP (nominal, per RBNZ) | 303,700 | E |
| 34.0% | 33.5% | 32.6% | 32.6% | Govt spending - % of GDP | 33.7% | E |
| and this compares with taxes collected as follows: | ||||||
| 83,199.9 | 88,230.7 | 93,623.8 | 97,949.5 | Total tax collected | 103,329.4 | |
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Sources: You can download the data behind these tables from the NZ Government website here»
12 Comments
Woah, woah, woah David, we can't have that kind of chat, stop with your facts and stuff.
Although Boatie is right, we do need to stop the landlord subsidies, I'm pretty sure their "hard-earned" capital gains that they've worked so hard for, should suffice without the need for further augmentation.
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