20551 (2025). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister for Energy

20551 (2025). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister for Energy: 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 2025 to date, broken down into international and domestic flights?

Hon Simon Watts: As Minister of Energy, I have no responsibility for any government departments or Ministries. In respect of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, I refer the Member to the Minister for Economic Growth’s answer to written parliamentary question 20545 (2025). With regard to Crown entities under the Energy Portfolio, I am advised that for EECA this information will be made available following EECA's 2024/25 Annual review hearing. For the EA the total costs spent by the Electricity Authority on domestic and international flight costs for financial years 2019/20 through 2024/25 YTD (as at 30 April 2025) are laid out in the table attached.