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Request for Budget Bid 2024 programme cuts

Published:

Reference: OIAD-1119

Published:

Reference: OIAD-1119

This request asks for advice provided relating to programmes that had their budgets reduced or cut in Budget 2024.

Response date

12 September 2024

Type

Departmental
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This request asks for advice provided relating to programmes that had their budgets reduced or cut in Budget 2024.

Response date

12 September 2024

Type

Departmental

Details of the request

Following the programme cuts/changes in the Budget, please provide ministerial advice related to programmes which had their budgets reduced/cut/changed. See list below. I’m assuming multiple reductions/savings/changes will be covered in single reports.

On top of that, when it comes to the waste disposal levy, please provide technical advice about proposed amendments to the Waste Minimisation Act 2008 enabling the central government allocation of the waste disposal levy to be spent on a broader range of environmental outcomes and help achieve fiscal savings.

To be clear, here are the programmes I’m interested in:

  • $22.3m reduction in departmental back-office functions and services, including less spending on contractors and consultants, and back-office capacity 
  • $10.6m reduction for departmental freshwater work programmes including the Jobs for Nature Secretariat and freshwater investment programmes
  • $9.7m reduction in departmental evidence and data funding associated with the production of environmental reporting and monitoring
  • $9.7m in non-levy-related waste savings, which will reduce funding for waste minimisation activities delivered by the Ministry (a further $15.2m in departmental waste savings is offset by the waste levy)
  • $14.3m in departmental climate change savings relating to the Climate Change Chief Executives Board and the Ministry’s climate change work programme
  • $6.1m in departmental partnerships and engagement savings relating to the Ministry's communications, engagement and partnership functions.
  • $15.6m returned from Climate Change Commission
  • $21.2m from climate change initiatives including for Māori Climate Resilience initiatives and the Climate Change Development Fund
  • $13m from three Essential Freshwater Fund initiatives: Freshwater Farm Plans; Te Tuatara o Pukekohe – Integrated Catchment Management Plan; and Tangata Whenua resource management training programme 
  • $31.7m from partnerships and engagement work including the Community Environment Fund, the Environmental Legal Assistance Fund, Indigenous Biodiversity, and Regional Planning (non-governmental organisations)
  • $16.7 from the Climate Emergency Response Fund for reducing emissions from waste
  • $10.4m from the Contaminated Sites Remediation Fund (offset by the waste levy so the work will continue).

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