20573 (2025). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister for Energy

Written Question
Published date: 16 May 2025
20573 (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 2020, 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 20567 (2025). With regard to Crown entities under the Energy Portfolio, I am advised that for information about EECA's domestic flights in the 2019/20 year, refer to question 97 of the 2023/24 Annual Review of the Energy Efficiency and conservation authority: https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/54SCENV_EVI_b7859efc-eb8e-4aa7-9d26-08dd0f2880dd_ENV77006/02b0906583f3ad56bf047b300f3f14b9bfeeac79 It is not in the public interest to provide more detail given the amount of time to track this data on an ongoing basis. For the EA I refer the member to my response for Written Parliamentary Question 20551 (2025).