20476 (2025). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister for Disability Issues

Written Question
Published date: 15 May 2025
20476 (2025). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister for Disability Issues: How much, if anything, did the Minister's departments, agencies, crown entities and any other bodies that the Minister is responsible for, if any, spend on flights in 2024, broken down into international and domestic flights?
Hon Louise Upston: Regarding the Ministry of Disabled People – Whaikaha (the Ministry), the information sought by the Member is provided as part of agencies’ Annual Review submissions. This includes information on spend for international and domestic flights for the financial years 2022/23 to 2023/24. I refer the Member to the Ministry's responses to Questions 95 to 97 (page 57 to 60) available on the Parliament website at the following link: https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/54SCSSC_EVI_82f045bd-21f0-4aa4-6fe2-08dcebf31e9f_SSC10703/3f509458a2ae076318c8dda8f0b86b075aefba55 Information for the 2024/25 financial year is not available yet. Regarding Disability Support Services, which is part of the Ministry of Social Development, I refer the member to the reply to WPQ 20385 (2025).