Total appropriations 2026/27
All Votes 1
Every dollar of public spending needs Parliament's approval. The 2026/27 ask for across Votes. Explore it by Vote, look up any appropriation, compare years and download the data.
Published Updated Source: The Treasury
Excluding identified transfers
Without the of asset transfers 2
Per person
Excluding transfers 3
Revenue from all Votes
Of which tax 4
Spending by Vote
What the money is for
Largest appropriations
Spending and revenue over time
Biggest changes from 2025/26
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- All 51 Votes Compare Votes, then open one for its trend, appropriations and Ministers.
- Search every appropriation Filter by Vote, type, Minister or department and download the results.
- Financial summary Actuals, budgets and forecasts for each Vote from 2021/22 to 2029/30.
- How the Budget passes Parliament From Budget day to the Appropriation Bill and Supplementary Estimates.
Notes and sources
Votes
A is a group of appropriations managed by one department. Compare all Votes, then open one for more detail.
Appropriations
Search and filter every in the 2026/27 Estimates. Select one to see its scope, figures and responsible Minister. Your filters are saved in the page address, so you can bookmark or share a search.
Multi-year appropriations
cover projects that run for up to five years. The 2026/27 amount is the part expected to be spent this year. Select one to see how much has been used and how much is left.
Financial summary
Actual spending and revenue for past years, the 2026/27 Budget and forecasts, from the in each Vote. Open a Vote to see its categories.
These are the Treasury's own Vote totals, so they include identified transfers and multi-year appropriations.
Reading the columns
- Actual
- Audited spending or revenue for 2021/22 to 2024/25.
- Final budgeted
- The 2025/26 amount after the Supplementary Estimates.
- Estimated actual
- What departments expect to have spent or received by the end of 2025/26.
- Budget
- The 2026/27 amount Parliament is asked to approve.
- Forecast
- Estimates for later years. Not approved by Parliament and likely to change.
Ministers and departments
Who is responsible for each appropriation. Ministers are listed by , departments by the agency that administers the money.
Help and data
How the Budget passes Parliament, how to read the figures, what the words mean, and the data behind this dashboard.
How the Budget passes Parliament
Reading the figures
Appropriations are limits, not spending
An appropriation is the most a department can spend for a purpose. Actual spending is usually lower. Appropriations also include capital spending and transfers, so the total is not the same as the Government's expenses in its financial statements.
Identified transfers
Some appropriations move assets or money between parts of the government rather than paying for services. In 2026/27 the largest is the transfer of school property assets to the New Zealand School Property Agency. Most totals on this site leave identified transfers out. Tick "Include identified transfers" to add them back.
Multi-category appropriations
A multi-category appropriation (MCA) is shown once as a total and again as its categories. Adding both together counts the money twice, so totals on this site use the MCA total only.
Units and rounding
The Estimates show amounts in $000 (thousands of dollars). Tables and charts on this site use $000 too, so they can be checked against the Vote documents. The key figures at the top of pages are rounded to $ billion or $ million so they are easy to read.
Which year is compared
Changes compare the 2026/27 Budget with the 2025/26 final budgeted amount (after the Supplementary Estimates). This is the comparison the Treasury uses in the Vote documents.
Sectors
Sectors are the groupings used in the Estimates. Each Vote's Summary of Financial Activity names its sector. The full list is below.
Glossary
Data and downloads
The Library read the data from the Vote documents of the Treasury's Estimates of Appropriations 2026/27 and checked that each Vote adds up to its published totals. All amounts are in $000. Each file can be opened in Excel.
Sources
How to cite
Contact
Questions about this dashboard or the data: . Members of Parliament and their staff can also ask the Library for research on the Budget.
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