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Details of all the budget cost items that fall under the Treasury's 'Transport' Category in the 2024 Budget
17th Jun 24, 2:45pm
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This table outlines the New Zealand Government's planned Transport spending for the 2024/25 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$.
| Actual 2019/20 | Actual 2020/21 | Actual 2021/22 | Actual 2022/23 | Estimate 2023/24 | Budget 2024/25 | % | |
| NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | ||
| 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Milford Sound / Piopiotahi Aerodrome Operation and Administration | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Crash Analysis | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 2.0 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Licensing Activities | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.8 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 3.1 | 0.0 | Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Transponders Rebate Scheme | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 13.0 | 103.0 | 127.1 | 71.6 | 0.0 | Protection of Transport Sector Agency Core Functions | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 39.1 | 392.4 | 427.4 | 125.9 | 0.0 | Maintaining International & Airfreight Capacity | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.7 | 0.0 | 411.0 | 1,554.0 | 0.0 | Fuel Excise Duty Refund Administration | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 38.1 | 30.4 | 1.7 | 4.3 | 0.9 | Reinstatement of the South Island Transport Corridors | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.5 | 4.3 | Supporting a Chatham Islands Replacement Ship | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 250.0 | 17.4 | Cyclone Gabrielle: National Land Transport Fund Operating Cost | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 200.0 | 300.0 | 1,500.0 | National Land Transport Programme Loan 2021 – 2024 | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 285.8 | 0.4 | Capital Expenditure | 0.4 | 0.0% |
| 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | Membership of International Organisations | 0.9 | 0.0% |
| 125.0 | 727.6 | 127.7 | 17.6 | 65.8 | COVID-19 - NLTF | 1.0 | 0.0% |
| 27.7 | 64.3 | 26.8 | 11.3 | 12.0 | Regional State Highways | 3.0 | 0.0% |
| 1.2 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 4.1 | Joint Venture Airports | 4.2 | 0.0% |
| 4.2 | 4.2 | 8.1 | 10.1 | 10.6 | Road User Charges Investigation, Enforcement & Refunds | 6.8 | 0.1% |
| 5.5 | 6.1 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 9.8 | Accident or Incident Investigation and Reporting | 8.7 | 0.1% |
| 0.1 | 0.1 | 9.4 | 13.8 | 16.1 | Maritime & Aviation Security & Safety | 14.3 | 0.2% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 6.5 | Public Transport Bus Decarbonisation | 15.2 | 0.2% |
| 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 11.7 | 14.8 | Health and Safety at Work Activities | 17.1 | 0.2% |
| 7.4 | 2.9 | 24.8 | 14.9 | 18.0 | Bad Debt Provision | 18.0 | 0.2% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.9 | 19.3 | Retaining and Recruiting Bus Drivers | 20.5 | 0.2% |
| 124.3 | 196.4 | 98.3 | 30.2 | 27.0 | Tuawhenua Provincial Growth Fund - Transport Projects | 20.8 | 0.2% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 21.2 | 30.6 | Ngauranga to Petone Shared Pathway Project | 22.6 | 0.3% |
| 24.6 | 24.7 | 25.6 | 25.7 | 27.2 | Weather Forecasts and Warnings | 28.8 | 0.3% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 5.3 | 77.5 | Community Connect Programme | 36.5 | 0.4% |
| 30.7 | 30.2 | 30.4 | 33.7 | 37.9 | SuperGold Card | 38.9 | 0.4% |
| 34.1 | 12.5 | 34.2 | 18.3 | 67.4 | Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency | 41.8 | 0.5% |
| 9.0 | 4.5 | 39.0 | 28.5 | 103.0 | Housing Infrastructure Fund | 50.0 | 0.6% |
| 18.2 | 44.3 | 45.0 | 48.4 | 53.5 | Search and Rescue Activities | 64.8 | 0.7% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 30.6 | 85.0 | Eastern Busway Project | 84.4 | 1.0% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 33.5 | Improving Resilience of the Roading Network | 93.3 | 1.1% |
| 93.5 | 126.6 | 54.8 | 76.3 | 253.0 | Policy advice, ministerial servicing, governance, planning, infrastructure | 110.7 | 1.3% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.4 | 20.5 | 22.5 | Civil Aviation Authority | 111.5 | 1.3% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 134.6 | 369.7 | 322.1 | Clean Vehicle Discount Scheme | 150.0 | 1.7% |
| 250.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 500.0 | 750.0 | NLTF Borrowing Facility for Short-Term Advances | 750.0 | 8.5% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,026.0 | North Island Weather Events – Road Response and Reinstatement | 752.6 | 8.6% |
| 37.1 | 267.7 | 325.9 | 477.9 | 689.2 | Capital Investment Package - Funding for Crown assets | 865.7 | 9.9% |
| 964.4 | 1,183.9 | 1,531.1 | 1,917.2 | 1,767.0 | Rail | 1,831.0 | 20.8% |
| 3,662.4 | 3,737.9 | 3,343.6 | 2,266.8 | 3,308.3 | National Land Transport Programme | 3,619.8 | 41.2% |
| 5,522.8 | 6,973.6 | 7,053.7 | 8,561.6 | 10,381.3 | Total Spending | 8,783.3 | 100% |
| Less: Recoveries | |||||||
| 0.2 | 0.0 | 151.3 | 125.6 | 0.0 | Miscellaneous receipts | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| -67.9 | -67.6 | -60.0 | -68.1 | -67.0 | Fuel Excise Duty Refunds | -73.9 | -1.2% |
| 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | Road User Charge transaction fee | 0.4 | 0.0% |
| 20.3 | 22.7 | 25.4 | 12.3 | 9.4 | Proceeds from the sale of New Zealand Railways properties | 4.0 | 0.1% |
| 10.2 | 11.3 | 9.6 | 10.8 | 8.4 | Northern Gateway Toll Road Revenue | 8.4 | 0.1% |
| 225.6 | 231.4 | 234.2 | 236.1 | 231.7 | Motor Vehicle Registration | 302.0 | 4.8% |
| 0.2 | 0.2 | 25.1 | 170.9 | 258.0 | Infringements | 151.3 | 2.4% |
| 1,716.1 | 1,930.2 | 1,839.6 | 1,414.3 | 1,792.9 | Road User Charges | 2,099.6 | 33.4% |
| 1,905.1 | 2,128.6 | 2,225.7 | 1,902.3 | 2,233.8 | Total Transport | 2,491.8 | 39.6% |
| 3,618 | 4,845 | 4,828 | 6,659 | 8,148 | Net Transport | 6,291 | 100% |
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Sources: You can download the data behind these tables from the NZ Government website here.
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