Budget 2022 at a glance: What you need to know

There's a lot of spending flying around in Budget 2022 - here are the main expenses in an easy-to-read list.

Cost of living: $1b package

• $814m for a $350 per person cost-of-living payment for individuals earning under $70k, equating to $27 a week per person over three months from 1 August for about 2.1m people,
• Funding to continue half-price public transport fares for further two months, plus ongoing concession for Community Services cardholders,
• $235m to continue fuel excise and road user charge reductions for a further two months
• $73m for 26,500 more insulation and heating retrofits for low-income homeowners
• Urgent supermarket legislation to ban covenants over land as a barrier to supermarkets accessing new sites and restricting competition
• Child support payments passed to sole-parent beneficiaries as income instead of being retained by government

Health: $11.1 billion across the forecast period

• $1.3b for health capital investments, including $572m for Whangārei Hospital, a further $78.3m for Hillmorton mental health project in Canterbury, and initial redevelopment planning for Nelson Hospital
• Record ongoing annual funding boost for Health NZ: $1.8b in year one, plus $1.3 billion in year two
• $488m for strengthening primary and community care
• $299m for Māori health services
• Remediation of DHB deficits (planned at $550m in '21/'22
• Pharmac to get extra $191 million over the next two years
• Three alcohol and drug treatment courts made permanent
• $166.1m over four years for ambulance services including adding 48 ambulances and 13 other vehicles, 248 paramedics and frontline staff, and 22 call centre staff
• $90.7m over four years for air ambulance services
• $102m boost for community healthcare
• $86m for GPs in high-needs areas
• $76m for training and primary care specialists
• $39 million over four years for Hauora Māori workforce development
• Already announced $100m for mental health, and $90m for rolling out in-school Mana Ake mental health and wellbeing programme
• $220m operating and $100m capital for investments in data and digital infrastructure for the reforms and health systems
• Dental needs grants increased from $300 to $1000
• Piki programme for free therapy in Wellington region extended

Climate

• Emissions Reduction Plan spends $2.9b from Emergency Response Fund
• $16m over four years for community-based renewable energy projects from the Māori and Public Housing Renewable Energy Fund
• $31m for a Māori climate action platform

Education: $2b operating, $855m capital funding

• $293m operating and $8m capital funding for replacing the decile system with the new Equity Index
• $184m increase in school operating grants
• $777m in capital investment including $219m for replacing furniture and equipment, $385m for building and refurbishing 280 classrooms at more than 40 schools, $88m for the Christchurch School Rebuild, $105m for Māori-medium kura
• $270m operating and $5m capital funding for pay parity for education and care, and kindergarten teachers
• Already announced $230m boost for apprenticeships, and support for Mana in Mahi and Māori Trades and Training Fund

Justice cluster*: $2.7b total operating, $65m capital funding

• $190m to strengthen legal aid scheme
• Already announced funding to maintain police officer-to-population ratio
• $92m operating, $2m capital funding for serious and organised crime harm minimisation strategy
• $165m operating, $21m capital funding for Tactical Response
• $47m for Te Ao Marama District Court model
• $34m operating, $13m capital funding for 15 March firearms commitments
• $28m operating, $2m capital for supporting bereaved families and whānau in the coronial system
• $141m for democratic processes including Electoral Commission funding for elections
• $4m to strengthen the Independent Police Conduct Authority
• Already announced $115m operating funding for family and sexual violence prevention

* This now includes Ministry of Justice, New Zealand Police, the Department of Corrections, the Serious Fraud Office, Crown Law Office

Natural Resources cluster: $1b operating, $12m capital funding **

• $179m total operating funding for Department of Conservation
• $32m operating, $2m capital funding for animal health and welfare regulation
• $92m operating, $2m capital for Biodiversity Strategy
• $19m incentives for biodiversity support by private landowners
• $179m for resource management reforms
• $118m operating, $5m capital funding for advisory services on rural land use

** Includes Ministry for the Environment, Department of Conservation, Ministry for Primary Industries

Māori and Pacific: $580m package across health, social and justice sectors

• $25m for Māori cadetships
• $18m for Pacific STEAM futures
• $8m for Tupu Aotearoa employment and training services
• $10m for Te Ringa Hapai Whenua Infrastructure Fund
• $26m for Progressive Procurement for Māori businesses
• $40m for Māori media
• $28m for protecting appropriate use of matauranga Māori and other taonga
• $167m for Whānau Ora Commissioning Agencies
• $168m for Hauora Māori (Maori Health Authority) Commissioning of health services
• $16m to expand the Māori and Public Housing Renewable Energy Fund

Disability support: $934m for disability system transformation

• $735m for disability service sustainability, with additional demand expected
• $100m for rolling out Enabling Good Lives approach allowing service users to budget their own services
• $108m to establish the new Ministry for Disabled People and support operations

Housing

• $221m for Affordable Housing Fund
• $1b to support public and transitional housing
• $355m for redesigning emergency housing system
• $75m for Homelessness Action Plan

Covid-19

• Budget 2022 sets aside $1.2b for immediate Covid-related public health needs
• $58.4b of the $61.6b Covid-19 Response and Recovery Fund (CRRF) has been allocated, leaving $3.2b. The CRRF will be closed and remaining funding repurposed, with $1.2 for urgent public health needs and $1b for cost of living relief

Broadcasting, arts and culture

• $370m over four years operating, $306m capital funding for the new Public Media Entity
• Funding for NZSO, Royal NZ Ballet, Heritage NZ, Te Papa, Nga Taonga Sound and Vision, Matariki celebrations, museums, Waitangi National Trust Board

Business and industry

• $100m for a Business Growth Fund for SMEs
• Continuation of the $200m Regional Strategic Partnership Fund
• $60 to progress Income Insurance Scheme design

Industry Transformation plans:

• $37m for Construction Sector Accord Transformation plan
• $30m for Advanced Manufacturing Industry Transformation plan
• $5m for Agritech Industry Transformation plan
• $20m for Digital Technologies Transformation plan
• $40m for Primary Industry Transformation plan

Other

• Further funding to progress Auckland Light Rail
• $349m for rail networks and rolling stock
• $10.9b over five years contribution to the NZ Superannuation Fund, greater than required
• $60m to improve broadband infrastructure in worst-served regions
• $30m for Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) cybersecurity agency
• New parliamentary accommodation
• Air New Zealand's recapitalisation plan to maintain the Government's 51% shareholding
• Replacement facility for Te Papa spirit collection
• Purpose-built facility for Whangarei Airport's Rescue and Firefighting Service
• Funding for Chatham Islands exports and imports vessel Southern Tiare
• Upgrading courts' case management system
• Upgrading satellite GPS accuracy

Totals and fiscal balancing

• $61.9b total for infrastructure upgrades 2022-'26
• $6.156b in new operating spending from Budget 2022 over five years, coming to $5.9b net
• $30.609b total operating expenditure for 2022-24

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