40681 (2025). Tangi Utikere to the Minister of Transport

Written Question

Published date: 04 Sep 2025

Metadata

Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	40681 (2025)
Question asked:	20 Aug 2025
Member asking:	Tangi Utikere
Portfolio:	Minister of Transport
Minister replying:	Hon Chris Bishop
Answer received:	31 Aug 2025
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_40681_2025
Document guid:	973c7952-9d83-4801-93c5-3a23e104aea6

40681 (2025). Tangi Utikere to the Minister of Transport: What analysis, if any, has NZTA undertaken to assess whether the current Funding Assistance Rate model disadvantages high-export, low-population districts?

Hon Chris Bishop: When setting the funding assistance rates for the 2024-27 period, NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) analysed data relating to each councils ability to pay. That analysis included consideration of population size, levels of deprivation, length of the roading network and the size of the roading programme. The analysis did not include the impact on exports.