Registrations for the Budget 2023 lock-up are now closed and all available seats have been allocated. To be added to the waitlist, please email [email protected].
Registrations of interest to attend the Budget 2023 media and analyst restricted briefing are now being taken.
Journalists and analysts are invited to register their interest in attending a briefing under embargo and other conditions, outlined below.
The restricted briefing will commence at 10.30am and finish at 2.00pm on Thursday 18 May in the Banquet Hall at Parliament. Doors open at 10am.
The Minister of Finance will attend the Budget lock-up briefing and Treasury officials will be available to answer technical questions arising from the Budget documents.
All documents will be published on the budget.govt.nz website at or shortly after 2.00pm on the day.
Please register your interest in attending the restricted briefing by emailing [email protected] by 5.00pm Tuesday 18 April.
If your news organisation requires camera crew and equipment at the restricted briefing, please indicate that with your registration of interest.
Attendance is restricted
From Tuesday 2 May the Treasury will contact those who have registered an interest to attend with a response to their registration application.
As in previous years, priority for seats at the lock-up briefing will be given to national and international media organisations, and economic and financial analysts attached to either financial institutions or national organisations that provide relevant specialist advisory services.
Although we will make efforts to accommodate everyone, the number of people attending from any one organisation may be limited and some registrations may be declined.
Please note that the number of people attending from any one organisation may be limited, and some registrations may be declined.
Terms and conditions
- All attendees must individually accept the restricted briefing rules via email to [email protected].
- All attendees must also sign a hard copy of the restricted briefing rules on arrival at the Banquet Hall.
- No information (including but not limited to text, voice, images or data) may be transmitted, received or released in any manner from the Budget lock-up from 10.30am until the embargo is lifted at 2.00pm on Thursday 18 May 2023. Please note this includes social media. This restriction applies irrespective of whether the information is about the Budget or not.
- Mobile phones do not need to be surrendered before entering the lock-up but must be turned off or switched to flight mode until the embargo is lifted.
- No one will be permitted to leave the venue once Budget information has been distributed. Bathrooms are located within the Banquet Hall.
- At 1:50pm, those attending the lock-up briefing will be permitted to start preparations to transmit information.
- Accredited representatives of the Parliamentary Press Gallery will be permitted to leave the venue at 1.50pm so they can attend the 2.00pm start of Hon Grant Robertson’s Budget Speech in the House of Representatives. The 2.00pm embargo still applies.
- At 2.00pm Treasury staff will announce the end of the lock-up, which is when information may be transmitted and when attendees may leave the venue.
- In the unlikely event that the building has to be evacuated before 2.00pm due to an emergency, the embargo will not be lifted. People will be directed to leave immediately but they will not be allowed to transmit or communicate Budget information.