41976 (2025). Lemauga Lydia Sosene to the Minister of Finance

41976 (2025). Lemauga Lydia Sosene to the Minister of Finance: How many international flights in total, if any, counting each leg of a journey as an individual flight, has each department or entity that the Minister is responsible for paid for in the period from November 27th 2023 to August 1st 2025; and what was the total cost broken down by month, destination, cabin class and the purpose of the flight?

Hon Nicola Willis: Treasury - I refer the member to the Select Committee responses which are publicly available on Parliament’s website. For the costs associated with the 2024-25 I refer the Member to the upcoming Financial Expenditure Committee questions. RBNZ - Financial year costs associated with the cost of international travel for 2023 are detailed in the RBNZ’s 2023-24 Annual Review documents. I refer the Member to question 96 to 98 of this document, which is publicly available on Parliament’s website. For the costs associated with the 2024-25 I refer the Member to the upcoming Financial Expenditure Committee questions.