Summary of Initiatives in Budget 2019

Summary of Initiatives in Budget 2019#

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Readers of the Budget have different information needs when looking at the new spending presented in the documents. To assist readers, this document presents the new initiatives contained in the Budget by ministerial portfolio and by Budget priority.

Each section does not build on the last, but repeats and recuts the same information. The total amount of funding in each section totals to the Budget 2019 package.

This document complements the Wellbeing Budget document, with greater detail on each new spending initiative in the Budget for your reference.

The 2019 Summary of Initiatives includes:

• Section 1 provides an overview of the Budget allowances and spending for Budget 2019.
• Section 2 lists the new initiatives in Budget 2019 by ministerial portfolio.
• Section 3 provides detail on each initiative, under each of the Budget 2019 priorities. This also includes a breakdown of the reprioritisation initiatives.
• Section 4 provides the key terms that are referred to in the Summary of Initiatives.

1  Introduction and Overview#

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Budget 2019 - Key details#

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For Budget 2019, the operating allowance is $3.8 billion per annum, and $10.4 billion of the $14.8 billion of the multi-year capital allowance for Budgets 2019-2022 has been allocated.

The allowances are calculated in net terms, meaning that increases in spending maybe offset by increases in revenue, reductions in spending, or reprioritisation of existing spending. Gross new operating spending in Budget 2019 averages $4 billion per annum. This is offset by $236 million per annum of revenue, savings under representation initiatives on average, giving a net increase of $3.8 billion per annum. Gross new capital spending in Budget 2019 totals $10.7 billion. This is offset by $300 million of reprioritised funding.

Understanding total and average operating expenses and capital expenditure

The total funding figures included in this document cover different time horizons for operating expenses and capital expenditure.

Operating expenses

• The total covers funding over the period of 2018/19 to 2022/23 (the current fiscal year, plus the next four fiscal years). Whenever a total operating funding figure appears, this is a five-year total.
• The average is calculated by taking the total operating funding over the forecast period (2018/19 to 2022/23), divided by four. This is because there are four full fiscal years in the forecast period, and under the current Budget management approach, no funding is set aside in the current fiscal year for decisions from future Budgets.

Capital expenditure

• For capital expenditure, the total covers funding over the period of 2018/19 to 2027/28 (the current fiscal year, plus the next nine fiscal years). Whenever a total capital funding figure appears, this is a ten-year total.

The reason for using a different time horizon is to ensure that the full investment on capital items can be reported, as in some cases capital expenditure on projects can fall outside the forecast period used by the Treasury.

Operating allowance in Budget 2019

The Budget operating allowance is on a per annum basis. On average, the Budget 2019 operating allowance is$3.8 billion per annum–over the four years 2019/20 to 2022/23 this totals $15.2 billion. This is an increase of $1.4 billion per annum from the Budget 2019 operating allowance signalled in the 2019 Budget Policy Statement.

The Treasury's fiscal forecasts also include allowances to be allocated in future Budgets. Figure 1 shows the cumulative impact of these operating allowances.

Figure 1 - Budget 2019 (average per annum) and future Budget operating allowances

Capital allowance

The 2019 Budget Policy Statement signalled a move away from single-year capital allowances to a rolling multi-year capital allowance (MYCA). This new approach provides flexibility to meet medium-term investment objectives while ensuring that near-term fiscal strategy can be achieved. It also improves the ability to take a longer-term view of capital commitments and increases transparency, by tracking and reporting more clearly the cash impact of initiatives over time.

The Budget capital allowance differs from the operating allowance, as it is invested on a one-off basis, rather than per annum, and is a rolling multi-year allowance. For Budget 2019, the multi-year allowance provides funding for Budgets 2019–2022, and uses $10.4 billion of the $14.8 billion available. This leaves $4.4 billion available for Budgets 2020-2022. The MYCA will be rolled out at the Half-Year Economic and Fiscal Update (HYEFU). The Government will decide on the amount that will be rolled out each year.

The total MYCA of $14.8 billion includes an increase of $1.7 billion from the MYCA allowance signalled in the 2019 Budget Policy Statement.

Figure 2 shows the capital allowances allocated in Budget 2019 and the remainder of the multi-year allowance.

Figure 2 - Budgets 2019-2022 capital allowance

Budget 2019 overview#

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The following tables and graphs in this section provide a high-level overview of new initiatives in Budget 2019 by theme, broken down into operating and capital expenditure.

Figure 3 - New funding for Budget 2019 by priority area

Summary of new spending at Budget 2019#

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2  Budget 2019 New Initiatives by Portfolio#

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Tables 3 and 4 below group new Budget initiatives by portfolio.

This section is particularly useful if you want to find the total net expenditure for initiatives led by each portfolio, such as Health or Education. Where one initiative affects multiple portfolios or Votes, it is only listed once, under the lead portfolio. This will include money going into other Votes. These portfolios are then split out in Section 3 – use the page reference in the left-hand column of Table 4 to jump to specific initiatives. If you are looking for the total Vote expenditure, see the relevant Estimates of Appropriations 2019/20 (also referred to in Section 3).

Table 4 - Initiatives agreed in Budget 2019, by Portfolio#

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3  Detailed Breakdown of Initiatives by Priority#

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This section provides the titles, descriptions, funding to each Vote and a reference to the relevant volume of the Estimates for each initiative funded in Budget 2019. This has been provided under each priority and sub priority for Budget 2019. The tables at the top of each priority section outline the total amount of funding for each priority area, and a sub-priority breakdown.

How to read the tables in the notes section#

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This section outlines the key components included for each initiative.

Priority area: Taking mental health seriously#

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Mental health - a new frontline service

Expanding Access and Choice of Primary Mental Health and Addiction Support

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative will enhance primary mental health and addiction responses across New Zealand to expand access and choice of mental health and addiction support, in particular for New Zealanders with mild to moderate needs. This will involve a national rollout phased over five years, which will make support available in a range of settings, including general practices, community settings, kaupapa Māori organisations, Pacific organisations and youth settings (including access to integrated therapies). Enhanced responses will be co-designed with whānau, communities, providers and other sector partners. This initiative also includes funding to upskill and expand the capacity of existing mental health and addiction workforces and to build new workforces. This will help to ensure New Zealanders are able to access support when and where they need it, and will contribute to improving people's mental health and wellbeing.

Expanding and Enhancing School Based Health Services

Led by the Minister of Health, with the Minister of Education. This initiative improves school-based support for the health and wellbeing needs of young people by funding enhanced School-Based Health Services in decile 1-4 schools. This will be done through providing funding for improving the nurse-to-student ratio, workforce development and introduction of electronic wellbeing assessments. This funding will also commence the rollout of School-Based Health Services to publicly-funded decile 5 secondary schools, to expand service delivery and coverage.

Expanding Telehealth and Digital Supports for Mental Wellbeing

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative will help people to maintain and improve their mental health and wellbeing by increasing people's access to mental health and addiction support over the phone and online through an expansion of telehealth and digital supports. This includes increasing capacity of telehealth services by an additional 58,000 contacts per year (for example, the 1737 helpline) and increasing access to distance counselling, as well as establishing a digital portal to bring mental health and wellbeing resources together for easier access.

Improving Support for People Experiencing a Mental Health Crisis

Led by the Minister of Health. This funding enhances responses for people experiencing a mental health crisis or at risk of suicide, for example, through upskilling emergency department staff to have improved conversations with people in crisis, and providing services to strengthen connections with peer, community or spiritual support.

Intensive Parenting Support: Expanding the Pregnancy and Parenting Service to Improve the Wellbeing Outcomes of Parents and Their Children

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative will reduce harm, improve the wellbeing of parents and children and strengthen family and whānau environments. This will be done through: providing funding for an expansion of the Pregnancy and Parenting Service to two more sites; enabling delivery of an intensive outreach service for pregnant women and parents who are experiencing problems with alcohol and other drugs; and are poorly connected to health and social services.

Mental Wellbeing Support for Parents and Whānau

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative aims to improve wellbeing outcomes for parents and their children, addressing a gap in current service provision. This will be done through providing funding for a pilot to develop, test and evaluate enhanced support for parents and whānau who have mental health or addiction needs during pregnancy, the first two years of a child's life or following a stillbirth. Responses will be based on needs and may include support through home visits, peer-based support and talking therapies.

New Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission

Led by the Minister of Health, with the Minister of State Services. This initiative will strengthen leadership and oversight of mental health and addiction in New Zealand to ensure there is sustained transformational change. This will be done through funding the initial establishment and ongoing operation of a new Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission, as recommended by the Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction.

Preventing Suicide and Supporting People Bereaved by Suicide

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative provides for a range of initiatives to expand and improve suicide prevention efforts and to better respond to the needs of people bereaved by suicide. This funding provides for: tailored Māori and Pacific suicide prevention initiatives; enhanced follow-up support; increased access to bereavement counselling; and improvements to information services for whānau and the media. This will contribute to addressing New Zealand's persistently high suicide rates.

Promoting Wellbeing in Primary and Intermediate Schools

Led by the Minister of Health, with the Minister of Education. This initiative helps support the mental wellbeing of children. This will be done through providing funding to make resilience-building resources available to primary and intermediate schools and teachers across the country.

Treating drug and alcohol addiction

Enhancing Primary Addiction Responses

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative expands the range of primary addiction support available to people with mild to moderate alcohol and other drug (AOD) issues. This funding will increase access to brief interventions for drug and alcohol addiction, as well as increasing access to counselling and group therapies for people experiencing AOD challenges.

Enhancing Specialist Alcohol and Other Drug Services

Led by the Minister of Health with the Minister of Corrections. This initiative improves sustainability of alcohol and other drug (AOD) residential services. This will be done through meeting existing cost pressures, primarily related to AOD residential care and detoxification services.

Supporting mental health within the justice sector

Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court: Operational Support 2019/20

Led by the Minister of Justice and Minister for Courts with the Minister of Police. This initiative aims to enable the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court (AODT Court) to continue contributing to reducing crime, victimisation and harm by addressing alcohol and other drug dependency. This will be achieved by funding the AODT Court to continue operating with dedicated police prosecutors, court coordinators and lawyer team leaders at the two pilot sites (Auckland and Waitakere) until the pilot ends on 30 June 2020. Having dedicated staff provides timely and consistent services to support participants undertaking treatment programmes. The dedicated staff also have experience in best practice approaches to alcohol and drug addiction.

Increasing Access to Mental Health and Addiction Support

Led by the Minister of Corrections, with the Minister of Justice and Minister of Police. This initiative forms part of the Budget package supporting the justice sector Hāpaitia te Oranga Tangata - Safe and Effective Justice programme. This initiative will improve the health, wellbeing and quality of life of vulnerable people in Corrections' care by providing funding for mental health and addiction interventions for vulnerable people in the justice system. Corrections will provide mental health services across all prisons and community Corrections sites, increase alcohol and other drug treatment programmes by at least 59 per cent and expand social worker and trauma counselling.

Support for Victims: Ensuring Safe and Effective Justice and Improved Mental Health Outcomes

Led by the Minister of Justice, with the Minister of Police and the Minister of Corrections. This initiative forms part of a package of initiatives supporting the justice sector Hāpaitia te Oranga Tangata - Safe and Effective Justice programme. The initiative aims to ensure we have a justice system that responds safely and effectively to victims of homicide and improves the mental health and other outcomes of victims. This will be done through funding Victim Support to employ specialist caseworkers to support families bereaved by homicide in their recovery and help them navigate the criminal justice system. These families will have a single, consistent, professional point of contact until they no longer need it or their engagement with the criminal justice system ends.

Te Ara Oranga: Continuing the Methamphetamine Harm Reduction Programme in Northland

Led by the Minister of Health with the Minister of Police. This initiative supports people addicted to methamphetamine, and their whānau, to recover and maintain wellbeing. This will be done through contributing funding to the continuation of Te Ara Oranga, a methamphetamine harm reduction programme in the Northland region.

Strengthening existing mental health services

Forensic Mental Health Services for Adults

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative ensures safe and secure forensic mental health services are available to adults in the justice system who require mental health support. Funding provides an increase in forensic mental health services.

Forensic Mental Health Services for Young People

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative ensures safe and secure forensic mental health services are available to young people. Funding provides for an increase in service provision in response to the legislative change increasing the youth justice age from 17 to 18 years, resulting in more young people within the youth justice system.

Support for Christchurch: Continuation of Funding for Primary Care and Community-Based Mental Health Workers

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative provides additional mental health support to the Christchurch community to ensure appropriate, immediate and accessible mental health responses are available to those who need them following the 15 March terror attack. This will be done through providing funding for an extension of the time-limited funding for primary and community mental health workers in Christchurch following the earthquakes that was due to expire in June 2019.

Investing in social determinants of mental health

Disabled People and People with Health Conditions: Improving Employment and Wider Wellbeing Outcomes

Led by the Minister for Social Development. This initiative aims to support an additional 2,600 disabled people and people with health conditions, including those with mental health needs, to find and stay in meaningful employment, increase their knowledge and skills and improve their health and wider wellbeing. This will be done by providing funding for: contracts with health agencies to continue the existing Oranga Mahi programme, which supports clients towards employment, better health and improved wellbeing; disability Employment Services to support more people to find and stay in employment; and support funds to cover the additional costs of disability in employment and work-related training, such as adaptive equipment and New Zealand Sign Language interpreters.

Housing Support Products: Expansion to Help More People Access and Maintain Tenancies

Led by the Minister of Housing and Urban Development. This initiative aims to improve housing outcomes by financially assisting more people to access and retain secure tenancies, which will help minimise the risk of homelessness. This will be done through providing funding for an increased amount of funding for Housing Support Products, as well as introduce a new rent arrears payment.

Maintaining and Strengthening the Housing First Programme as a Response to Ending Homelessness

Led by the Minister of Housing and Urban Development. This initiative aims to ensure we can continue to improve the social and housing outcomes of chronically homeless people. This will be done by providing additional funding to maintain the current level of Housing First places and support services, as well as expanding the Housing First programme to a total of around 2,700 places.

Promoting and Supporting the Health and Wellbeing of Veterans and their Families

Led by the Minister for Veterans. This funding will support the provision of a modern and responsive service to meet statutory obligations in response to the Independent Review of the Operations of the Veterans Support Act 2014. The funding provides for enhanced direct services to veterans, such as health and wellbeing assessments, and capital investment to develop the payment and rehabilitation plan management system supporting veterans.

Transitional Housing: Funding for the Continued Provision of Transitional Housing to Support Those in Need

Led by the Minister of Housing and Urban Development. This initiative aims to improve housing and social outcomes by reducing homelessness through the provision of warm, dry and safe short-term accommodation for individuals and families in insecure housing through the Transitional Housing programme. This will be done by increasing the supply of long-term and relocatable transitional housing places in areas with the highest need, as well as funding associated services.

Supporting mental wellbeing

An Effective, Timely Crown Response to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in Care

Led by the Minister of State Services, with the Ministers of Health, Justice, Police, Social Development and the Minister for Children. This initiative aims to ensure the Crown can engage with the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in Care in a full, timely and joined-up manner, to help the Royal Commission achieve its vision of “Transforming the way we, as a nation, care for children, young people and vulnerable adults in our communities”. This will be achieved through providing funding for a cross-agency Secretariat to deliver a coordinated Crown approach, legal support for representation and procedural questions, and specialist support to agencies for researching and compiling records for the Royal Commission and individuals affected by the Royal Commission.

Establishment of the Royal Commission into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-Based Institutions

Led by the Minister of Internal Affairs. This initiative aims to examine and report on the historical abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults in State care and in the care of faith-based institutions. This will be done by providing funding for the establishment and ongoing operation of the Royal Commission into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-Based Institutions, and for counselling costs for those involved with the Royal Commission.

Historical Abuse While in State Care: Resolving Claims

Led by the Minister for Social Development. This initiative aims to help those who have been abused while in State care have a sense of justice, validation and empowerment, and to support them address adverse outcomes. It also aims to improve the current care system. This will be done by providing funding for the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) to resolve 1,864 claims of historical abuse of people while in State care, without them having to resort to civil litigation. This funding will shorten the time to process claims. Lessons from claims will be shared with Oranga Tamariki and other providers of State care.

Sensitive Claims of Abuse: Funding to Resolve and Acknowledge Historic Abuse in the Schooling System

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to ensure the resolution of claims against the Crown for allegations of historic physical, psychological and sexual abuse that occurred at a school, including residential special schools. This will be approached through an alternative dispute resolution process where the Ministry of Education works directly with claimants to resolve their grievances.

Priority area: Improving child wellbeing#

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Addressing family and sexual violence

Increasing investment in prevention

Early Years Violence Prevention Sites

Led by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues). This initiative aims to build on and grow community-led innovations to prevent and mitigate harm experienced by children exposed to family violence and sexual violence in a number of sites. This will be achieved by prototyping practical actions to improve wellbeing for children who are exposed or at risk of exposure, building on existing early years services in those sites. They will also test ways of working across sectors and with community, iwi and non-governmental partners, to better understand and implement the system-level changes for children in the early years, and identify opportunities to apply these lessons at the national policy level.

Family Violence Prevention

Led by the Minister for Social Development, supported by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues). This initiative will increase investment in family violence prevention activities, including: E Tū Whānau, a Crown-Māori partnership, which uses a strengths-based approach to help reduce the occurrence of family violence and other forms of violence in Māori communities; Pasifika Proud, which harnesses the transformative power of Pacific core cultural values and frameworks to address violence issues in Pacific communities; and expanding coverage of the Campaign for Action on Family Violence, including through addressing shifts in behaviour of men using and at risk of using violence, and a new focus on young people and safe relationships.

Violence Prevention Needs of Diverse Communities

Led by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues). This initiative will enable the development and understanding of violence prevention needs in diverse communities including LGBTQI+, elderly, youth, disability and new migrants in order to develop future violence prevention programmes.

Safe, consistent and effective responses to family violence in every community

Ensuring Safe, Consistent and Effective Responses to Family Violence in Every Community

Led by the Minister of Police, supported by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues). This initiative aims to ensure that we can provide victims, families and whānau affected by family violence with safe and consistent responses, where and when they need it. This will be achieved through building the foundations for an effective response in every part of New Zealand. In particular, this initiative will provide funding for two Integrated Safety Response sites (in Christchurch and Waikato) for two more years, provide funding to extend the Whāngaia Nga Pa Harakeke and Whiria Te Muka sites for two more years, provide more specialist family violence services and extend trials for proximity alarms to help keep victims and whānau safe. This initiative will also provide funding for the development of national case management systems to support triage, risk assessment and management processes.

Family Violence Capability and Regional Support

Led by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues), with the Minister of Police and the Minister for Social Development. This initiative will enhance regional capability across the country to respond to family violence by: funding coordination of family violence crisis responses (building on the current Family Violence Response Coordination funding); providing practice leaders to build practice standards and support professional development and training; and ensuring specialist frontline service providers participate fully in risk assessment and triage processes.

Family Violence Services: Continuing Funding for the Family Violence Response Coordination Fund for One Year

Led by the Minister for Social Development, supported by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues). This initiative aims to reduce the incidence of family violence. This will be done through providing funding to continue the Family Violence Response Coordination fund for one year while work begins to establish regional support that has a more dedicated focus on building service provider workforce capability and, in time, on coordinating regional service responses.

Victim Video Statements

Led by the Minister of Police, supported by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues). This initiative allows victims of family violence incidents to give statements in a less intrusive and time-consuming manner in their own words. It removes any suggestion of ambiguity inherent in written statements and reduces the impact on the victim, their whānau and the wider justice sector. This will be achieved by enabling Police responding to a family violence incident to record an audio-visual statement from a victim at the scene.

Violence Intervention Programme: Health Sector Screening for Early Intervention and Prevention of Family Violence

Led by the Minister of Health, supported by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues). This initiative supports safe, consistent and effective responses to family violence in every community by continuing training for health practitioners in District Health Boards. This will be done through providing funding for practitioners to routinely deliver effective screening and referrals, and explore the provision of a training programme for primary health care providers (including GPs, nurses, dental nurses).

Expanding essential specialist sexual violence services

Sexual Violence Services: Crisis Support Services for Children and Young People

Led by the Minister for Children, supported by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues). This initiative aims to increase child wellbeing by providing funding for age-appropriate sexual harm crisis support services for children and young people. Crisis services include immediate support to reduce the severity and longevity of the negative impacts of sexual harm, and promote the safety and wellbeing of the child or young person in their family, whānau and community.

Sexual Violence Services: Developing Kaupapa Māori Services for Victims/Survivors, Perpetrators and Their Whānau

Led by the Minister for Social Development, supported by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues). This initiative aims to increase wellbeing by reducing the severity and duration of trauma-related symptoms experienced by Māori victims/survivors and perpetrators of sexual violence and their whānau. This will be done through providing funding to enable the development and co-design of holistic, whānau-centred kaupapa Māori specialist sexual violence services. Services will be developed by Māori for Māori and include comprehensive responses from prevention and early intervention through to long-term support. It will also address the current geographical gaps in service delivery by supporting more kaupapa Māori providers to develop specialist sexual violence service capability.

Sexual Violence Services: Improving the Wellbeing of Male Victims/Survivors Through Peer Support Services

Led by the Minister for Social Development, supported by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues). This initiative aims to increase wellbeing by reducing the severity and duration of trauma-related symptoms experienced by male victims/survivors of sexual violence. This will be done through providing funding to continue and expand services for male victims/survivors of sexual violence, through expanding current access to peer support and group-peer support services for male victims/survivors.

Sexual Violence Services: Increasing Access to Crisis Support Services for Victims/Survivors

Led by the Minister for Social Development, supported by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues). This initiative aims to increase wellbeing by reducing the severity and duration of trauma-related symptoms experienced by victims/survivors of sexual violence. This will be done through providing more sustainable funding for crisis support services for victims/survivors of sexual violence and their families/whānau. Increased funding levels will ensure services are available 24/7 at a level that meets current demand. Services include callout response, crisis counselling and crisis social work support.

Sexual Violence Services: Increased Services for Children and Young People with Concerning/Harmful Sexual Behaviours

Led by the Minister for Children, supported by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues). This initiative aims to increase child wellbeing through increased service capacity to meet demand for prevention, education, early intervention, assessment and treatment services for children and young people who display concerning and harmful sexual behaviours. This includes service development to ensure services (including assessments, treatments and preventative initiatives) can be delivered in a kaupapa Māori context and are suitable for those with behavioural problems, intellectual disability or neuro-disability issues.

Sexual Violence Services: Support for Victims/Survivors of Sexual Violence Going Through the Criminal Justice System

Led by the Minister for Social Development, supported by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues). This initiative aims to increase wellbeing by reducing secondary victimisation, and the resulting severity and duration of trauma-related symptoms experienced by victims/survivors of sexual violence going through the criminal justice system. It is also expected to increase conviction rates for perpetrators of sexual violence by reducing the current attrition rate of sexual violence cases. This will be done through providing funding for developing specialist services to provide counselling, social work support and support preparing for the criminal justice process.

Sexual Violence Services: Support Services for Adults Experiencing Concerning Sexual Ideation

Led by the Minister for Social Development, supported by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues). This initiative aims to increase the mental wellbeing of adults who exhibit concerning sexual ideation by providing access to support that reduces the chance of them engaging in harmful behaviours. It is expected to decrease sexual offending in the long term. This will be done through providing funding to develop an early intervention service that provides support for potential perpetrators before they might harm others.

Sexual Violence Services: Support Services for Non-Mandated Adults with Harmful Sexual Behaviours

Led by the Minister for Social Development, supported by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues). This initiative aims to improve mental wellbeing and reduce re-offending by adults with harmful sexual behaviours who are not engaged in the justice system (non-mandated adults). This will be done through providing funding to continue current treatment and support services and increase the number of treatment places available. This will reduce current waiting lists, and implement additional support and improve service quality.

Improving the justice response to sexual violence victims

Improving the Justice Response to Sexual Violence Victims

Led by the Minister of Justice and for Courts, supported by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues), the Attorney-General, the Minister of Corrections and the Minister of Police. This initiative will reduce the risk of sexual violence victims experiencing further trauma when participating in the criminal justice process. It will be achieved by: enabling complainants to give evidence in alternative ways (including by pre-recorded video); ensuring help is available for complainants and witnesses to understand and respond to questions in court; and providing specialist training to encourage lawyers to use best practice in sexual violence cases.

Joint Venture Business Unit

Supporting the Leadership, Governance and Accountability of the Family Violence and Sexual Violence Joint Venture

Led by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues), supported by the Ministerial Group for family violence and sexual violence. The joint venture was established to prevent and eliminate family violence and sexual violence. This initiative aims to support the leadership and governance of the joint venture by providing a focal point for cross-agency projects and coordinating action across joint venture agencies. This will be achieved by funding the staff and infrastructure of a dedicated business unit.

Improving child wellbeing through education and taking financial pressure off parents

Additional Funding for Schools to Replace Parental Donations

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to alleviate financial pressure on families who struggle to pay school donations, as well as benefiting eligible schools by providing greater certainty of revenue or increased revenue. This will be done by providing an additional payment of $150 per student to decile 1-7 State and state-integrated schools that agree not to request donations from parents.

Christchurch Schools Rebuild

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to improve educational infrastructure for students in Christchurch following the 2011 earthquakes. This will be done by funding the Christchurch Schools Rebuild programme for another year. This funds part of the $1.137 billion announced in 2013 and cost increases identified in the 2018 midpoint review.

Cost Adjustment for Subsidies for Early Learning and Schools' Operational Grant

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative supports early childhood education services, ngā kōhanga reo and schools to maintain volume and quality while meeting the rising costs of resources, services and staffing. The initiative is intended to limit the need for fee increases in early learning, reductions to the breadth and depth of curriculum or deferral of maintenance. This will be done by increasing funding for schools' operational grants and subsidies for services. The cost adjustment will take effect from 1 January 2020.

Creatives in Schools

Led by the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage with the Minister of Education. This funding will enable a Creatives in Schools programme to be delivered to schools and kura. Professional artists and creative practitioners will partner with schools to share specialist artistic knowledge and creative practice with students. The creative learning experience will enhance students' wellbeing, improve their core competencies in communication, collaboration and creative thinking, and inspire their awareness of careers in the arts and creative sectors.

Early Childhood and Schooling: Meeting Increased Demand

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to ensure that schools and early childhood education (ECE) services are funded to maintain existing levels of access and provision, in response to changes in demand. This will be done through providing funding for projected changes in expenditure on teacher salaries, schools' operational funding and ECE subsidies.

Home-Based Early Childhood Education Review: Improving the Quality of Home-Based Early Childhood Education

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to achieve better outcomes for children by improving the quality of educator-child interactions in home-based ECE. This will be done by providing funding to tertiary providers to enable the existing educator workforce to upskill to a Level 4 ECE qualification. Funding will also be used to translate the qualification into other languages widely used in home-based ECE, such as Tongan and Samoan, so that educators who are not proficient in English will also be able to upskill.

Improving the Condition of School Property

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to improve the condition and performance of school property through better information for decision-making. This will be done by collecting performance data on schools across three critical dimensions (condition, fitness for purpose and operational efficiency) to inform the systematic upgrade of all State schools, including school internet infrastructure, by 2030.

Improving the Quality of the Education System

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to maintain and improve the quality of education. It does this by: meeting cost pressures to enable the current review frequency for early learning services and schools to be maintained; providing funding to increase the frequency of reviews of early learning services by the Education Review Office; and increasing the proportion of tertiary courses monitored by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.

Increasing Learning Support Funding in Line with Population and Demand Growth

Led by the Associate Ministers of Education, Hon Tracey Martin and Hon Jenny Salesa. This initiative helps to maintain timely and quality support for children and young people with additional learning needs, primarily for those with moderate needs. This support is essential for achieving good outcomes for these children and young people. This will be done by providing additional funding to the Ministry of Education to deliver a range of learning supports.

Learning Support: Addressing Critical Cost and Demand Pressures for Children and Young People

Led by the Associate Ministers of Education, Hon Tracey Martin and Hon Jenny Salesa. This initiative aims to improve outcomes and wellbeing by ensuring that children and young people with learning support needs receive timely and quality support. This will be achieved by funding cost and demand pressures for a range of interventions. This includes: improving education provision for students at risk of disengaging from education; early intervention services; maintaining access to education for deaf and hard-of-hearing children and young people; English for Speakers of Other Languages; Te Kahu Tōi Intensive Wraparound Service; residential special schools; and increasing access to assistive technology.

Learning Support Coordinator Role

Led by the Associate Minister of Education, Hon Tracey Martin. This initiative aims to directly support the Learning Support Action Plan to develop an education system where every child feels a sense of belonging, is present and makes progress. Their wellbeing is safeguarded and promoted, and disabled children and young people and those with additional needs get the right support at the right time to support their learning. The implementation of approximately 600 Learning Support Coordinators will support schools and kura to better identify and respond to the disability and learning support needs of children and young people.

Learning Support System Improvements: Creating a More Inclusive Education System

Led by the Associate Minister for Education, Hon Tracey Martin. This initiative aims to create a more inclusive education system that welcomes and supports children and young people with additional needs. This includes an enhanced package of support for gifted learners and continuing to support students most at risk of disengaging from education through the Te Kura Big Picture programme. This will be done by funding access to out-of-school provision, events, opportunities and awards for gifted learners, and guidance and support for teachers. It will also fund a programme managed by Te Kura that offers face-to-face support and personalised learning programmes and courses, to support learners in re-engaging with their education.

National Certificate of Educational Achievement Online: Transforming Assessment for Learners (NCEA Online)

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to deliver equitable and inclusive online digital assessments. This will be done by funding new technologies and business processes to deliver digital assessments and learning.

NCEA: Removal of Fees and Funding of Cost Pressures

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to remove financial barriers to learners accessing National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) qualifications. This will be done through providing funding to remove the NCEA assessment fee for all students, without compromising the New Zealand Qualifications Authority's continued investment in a high-quality NCEA assessment process, which maintains learner and community confidence in NCEA.

Providing the Education Infrastructure Service with Sustainable Funding

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to maintain the Ministry of Education's current level of service in managing the school property portfolio. This will be done by providing funding to cover the increasing shortfall in the Education Infrastructure Service's departmental operating expenditure, owing to declining baselines.

School Property Programme to Deliver the National Education Growth Plan

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to deliver additional classrooms, new schools, property for kura and special education. It will also provide funding for land to accommodate student population growth and demographic changes. This will be done through providing funding for the first stage of a 10-year programme that provides certainty to the Ministry of Education, schools and the construction sector. The remaining funding for the 10-year programme is held in tagged contingency.

Supporting Schools and Early Learning Settings to Improve Wellbeing Through Healthy Eating and Quality Physical Activity

Led by the Minister for Sport and Recreation, with the Ministers of Education and Health. This new initiative will be administered jointly by Sport NZ, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health. This funding will support early learning settings and schools to provide healthy and active learning environments, support and enhance teacher practice and support school leadership generally in relation to the health and physical education (HPE) curriculum. This will be done by supporting all schools and early learning settings through guidelines, curriculum resources, health promotion staff and school physical activity advisors. Implementation will include a focus on healthy eating policies, enhanced delivery of the HPE curriculum and provision of active school environments.

Teacher Supply: Continuing to Increase the Levels of Teacher Supply for the Future

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to ensure we continue to increase the levels of teacher supply for the future. This will be done through initiatives that: enable the sector to ‘grow our own' domestic teacher base through attracting and training people to enter the profession, including through increased funding for initial teacher education; enable recruitment of New Zealand-trained or overseas-trained teachers, while the ‘grow your own' model becomes embedded; and assist the sector to retain the teachers we already have and any new teachers who will be coming on board in the future.

Breaking the cycle for children in State care

Community Service Providers: Supporting Social Services for Children

Led by the Minister for Children. This initiative aims to support the sustainability and effectiveness of non-governmental organisation (NGO) social service providers contracted by Oranga Tamariki. It will address particular challenges in recruiting and retaining staff with the skills required to work effectively with high-risk children, young people and families.

Corporate Cost Pressures for Oranga Tamariki

Led by the Minister for Children. This initiative aims to maintain current programmes and services provided to children by providing for increasing costs associated with shared services, insurance and office rental cost increases.

Improving Outcomes for Māori Children and Young People Within the Oranga Tamariki System

Led by the Minister for Children. This initiative aims to improve outcomes for Māori children and young people within the Oranga Tamariki system, as required under the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989. It will do this by focusing on strategic partnerships with iwi and Māori groups to enable these organisations to be actively involved in meeting the needs of Māori children, young people and their whānau; and scaling up a core workforce of specialist Māori roles (Kairāranga and iwi/Māori-led Family Group Conference Coordinators) to better meet the needs of Māori children and young people.

Intensive Intervention: Supporting Children and Young People at Risk of Harm to be Safe at Home with Their Families and Whānau

Led by the Minister for Children, in consultation with the Minister for Whānau Ora. This initiative aims to create a new Intensive Intervention service that uses a highly skilled ‘family/whānau intensive support worker' role to work with families and whānau. This service aims to help those children and young people considered to be most at risk of entry or re-entry into State care to remain safely at home.

Investment in Children: Demand Cost Pressures for Oranga Tamariki

Led by the Minister for Children. This initiative aims to maintain current outcomes by providing funding to meet the increasing costs of services that are offered to meet the emotional and physical needs of children in care.

Remuneration Cost Pressures for Oranga Tamariki

Led by the Minister for Children. This initiative aims to maintain current outcomes by providing for increased remuneration costs associated with staff in line with employment agreements.

State Care for Children and Young People: Improving Outcomes Through Independent Monitoring

Led by the Minister for Social Development. This initiative aims to increase confidence in the State care system and improve the current and inter-generational wellbeing of children, young people, their whānau and caregivers; build resilience in the care system; and support the voice of children, young, their whānau and caregivers to be heard in the delivery of services. This will be done by providing funding to establish an independent monitor for the State care system for children and youth. The monitor will provide assurance about government policies, systems and services relating to State care. It will mitigate the risk of systems failure and support systems learning and improvement.

Supporting Service Delivery: Client Access to Information

Led by the Minister for Children. This initiative aims to ensure that Oranga Tamariki can continue to ensure individuals have access to information about themselves. This will be achieved through providing funding for additional staff to ensure that the service is adequately resourced to meet the current and anticipated levels of demand.

Transforming Our Response to Children and Young People at Risk of Harm

Led by the Minister for Children. This initiative aims to allow Oranga Tamariki to make essential preparatory changes to meet legislative requirements to transform the care system, establish the Transition Support Service, and introduce new information sharing arrangements before 1 July 2019.

Transforming the Care System to Improve the Safety and Wellbeing of Children and Young People in Care

Led by the Minister for Children. This initiative aims to transform the care system, in line with the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 and Care Standards Regulations 2018, by: building frontline capacity and capability to provide care and support for children and young people in care and their families, whānau and caregivers and community environments suited to our new way of working; delivering high-quality services and support that address children's and young people's individual needs; finding and retaining high-quality caregivers, and supporting them to provide safe, stable, loving homes for children and young people in their care; building placement capacity for very high needs children and young people, whose therapeutic needs cannot be met in a whānau care or traditional foster care environments. This initiative will be implemented over six years, increasing total operating funding to $753 million over six years.

Transition Support Service: Improving the Wellbeing Outcomes of Young People Leaving Care or Youth Justice

Led by the Minister for Children. This initiative aims to provide young people leaving care or youth justice with a more gradual and supported transition into adulthood, as required under the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989. This will be achieved through providing funding for a relationship-based service that will support young people to prepare for transition, respond to their needs as they leave, and help them gain their independence. It will provide advice and assistance, after-hours support and broker services and housing supports. This initiative will be implemented over six years, increasing total operating funding to $252 million over six years.

Youth Justice: Investment in Youth Justice Services to Manage Increased Volumes and Reduce Young People's Re-Offending

Led by the Minister for Children. This initiative aims to enhance the wellbeing of young people in the Youth Justice system and reduce re-offending, in line with the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989. This will be achieved through providing funding to: establish and staff small, community-based facilities to manage the increased volume of young people requiring custodial services, following the legislative requirement to include 17-year-olds in the Youth Justice system from 1 July 2019; provide education assessments and education provision to young people in Youth Justice residences; and include 17-year-olds in supported bail initiatives to prevent young people from entering custody.

A fairer welfare system

Incomes for People Receiving Benefits: Implementation

Led by the Minister for Social Development. This initiative is for the implementation of Budget initiative ‘Incomes for People Receiving Benefits: Indexing Main Benefits, Removing Deductions and Changing Abatement Thresholds'. This will be done by providing funding for implementation costs, primarily for information technology changes and additional staff.

Incomes for People Receiving Benefits: Indexing Main Benefits, Removing Deductions and Changing Abatement Thresholds

Led by the Minister for Social Development, with the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction and Minister of Finance. This initiative aims to increase the incomes of people receiving benefits and their families, contributing to greater wellbeing and reduced hardship. This will be done by providing funding to: increase all main benefits each year by the rate of increase of the net average wage; remove deductions currently applied under the Social Security Act 2018 to the benefit rate of sole parents because they have not identified the other parent and/or applied for Child Support; and allow for an increase to the amount that beneficiaries can earn before their benefit reduces (abates).

Ensuring our children are safe and nurtured

Enhancing Services to Combat Child Sexual Exploitation Across Our Cyber Border

Led by the Minister of Customs. This initiative aims to: reduce sexual exploitation of children for the creation and distribution of abuse imagery; reduce the number of children sexually abused; and prevent further abuse of previously abused children. Additional staff and new tools will enable greater detection of child exploitation material, increased identification of exploitation in New Zealand and the ability to target other forms of objectionable materials.

Increasing Access to and Modernising Child Development Services to Improve the Health and Social Outcomes of Children with Additional Needs

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative improves the health and social outcomes of children who are not meeting their developmental milestones (owing to neurodisabilities such as autism, physical or sensory impairments or other factors) and have additional needs. This will be done through increasing service provision by employing additional FTE and ensuring the correct mixture of professionals is available to meet service demand.

KickStart and KidsCan: Continuing to Improve Child Wellbeing

Led by the Minister for Social Development, with the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction. This initiative aims to improve the wellbeing of vulnerable children and young people by reducing the impacts of poverty on households. This will be done by providing continued funding for the KickStart Breakfast Programme, which currently provides Weet-bix and milk to children in over 1,000 schools around New Zealand, reaching 30,000 children, and for KidsCan to provide support to children in low-decile schools with food and essential clothing such as raincoats, socks, shoes and hygiene products. The funding will also allow an impact evaluation of a KidsCan pilot programme in early childhood education centres.

Oho Ake: Expanding the Programme to Prevent Offending by Tamariki and Rangatahi in the Eastern Bay of Plenty

Led by the Minister of Justice, with the Minister of Police and the Minister of Corrections. This initiative forms part of the Budget package supporting the justice sector Hāpaitia te Oranga Tangata - Safe and Effective Justice programme. The initiative aims to expand the scope of Oho Ake, to prevent offending by tamariki and rangatahi in the Eastern Bay of Plenty. This will be achieved by investing in additional resource to provide clinical and social services.

Well Child Tamariki Ora: Maintaining the Universal Health Service for Children and Their Families from Birth to Five Years

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative provides for the continuation of the Well Child Tamariki Ora (WCTO) programme, which ensures universal health services for children and their families from birth to five years to improve child wellbeing outcomes. This will be done through providing funding for providers of WCTO services to continue to promote, protect and improve the health and wellbeing of children and their families.

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Whānau wellbeing

A boost for Whānau Ora

Te Whakaū i te Kaupapa o Whānau Ora i roto i ngā Whare Hauora Matua hei Painga mō te Oranga o te Māori me ngā Iwi o Te Moananui-a-Kiwa

Identifying and Developing How a Whānau-Centred Approach to Our Primary Healthcare Can Improve the Wellbeing of Māori and Pasifika

Led by the Minister for Whānau Ora, with the Associate Minister of Health. This initiative will enable exploration into how a whānau-centred approach can be used to raise health and wellbeing outcomes for Māori and Pasifika, including how to reduce avoidable hospitalisation rates, and to develop an investment proposal to test such an approach.

Whānau Taurikura: E Whakawhānui ana i te Kaupapa o Whānau Ora e Ora Nui ai te Huhua o ngā Whānau

Whānau Wellbeing: Expanding Coverage of Whānau Ora to Support More Whānau to Thrive and Achieve Wellbeing Outcomes

Led by the Minister for Whānau Ora, with the Minister for Oranga Tamariki. This initiative aims to increase support for whānau to achieve their aspirations and lift overall wellbeing. This will be done through funding the expansion of the Whānau Ora commissioning for outcomes approach to reach more whānau. It will include an increase in the navigator workforce, targeted tamariki support and support to build financial capability.

Kaupapa Māori approach to tackling re-offending

Paiheretia te Muka Tāngata: Kia Piki Ake ngā Hua ki ngā Whānau Māori kua Pāngia e te Ture, e Hoki Pai mai ai Rātou ki te Hapori - Wāhanga A

Māori Pathway: Improving Outcomes for Māori and Their Whānau in the Corrections System and Supporting Their Reintegration Back into Communities - Part A

Led by the Minister for Whānau Ora, with the Minister of Corrections and the Minister for Social Development. This initiative aims to use the Whānau Ora approach to support Māori aged under 30 in the New Zealand corrections system. It aims to build and maintain strong relationships between the individual and their whānau and provide support to lower reconviction rates and the Māori prison population. This will be done through providing funding for tailored navigator support before, during and after the individual's time in the corrections system, specific rehabilitative programmes to address issues that may have contributed to their offending and employment support on release.

Paiheretia te Muka Tāngata: Kia Piki Ake ngā Hua ki ngā Whānau Māori kua Pāngia e te Ture, e Hoki Pai mai ai Rātou ki te Hapori - Wāhanga B

Māori Pathway: Improving Outcomes for Māori and Their Whānau in the Corrections System and Supporting Their Reintegration Back into Communities - Part B

Led by the Minister of Corrections, with the Ministers of Justice, Police and the Minister for Whānau Ora. This initiative forms part of the Budget package supporting the justice sector Hāpaitia te Oranga Tangata - Safe and Effective Justice programme. This initiative will develop a kaupapa-Māori-based pathway, Māori co-designed and implemented, for Māori who enter the corrections system to improve rehabilitation and reintegration outcomes in Hawkes Bay and Northland. Included in this pathway are Māori trauma and mental health support, rehabilitation services and housing transition support.

Supporting Te Reo Māori and communities

He Tautoko i Te Rūnanga Nui o Ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori

Supporting Te Rūnanga Nui o Ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori

Led by the Associate Minister of Education (Māori Education). This initiative aims to improve outcomes for Māori learners attending kura kaupapa Māori. This will be done by providing funding to Te Rūnanga Nui o Ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori to better undertake its kaitiaki (guardianship) and kaitautoko (advocacy) functions.

He Whakaara anō i Te Kotahitanga: Ko te Tautoko i ngā Hua Tōtika mō ngā Ākonga Māori

Restarting Te Kotahitanga: Supporting Equitable Outcomes for Māori Learners

Led by the Associate Minister of Education (Māori Education). This initiative aims to support equitable outcomes for Māori learners by addressing cultural bias and racism in the education system (Te Hurihanganui) and supporting whānau to engage in the education of Māori learners (Mana Whānau). This will be done by testing and evaluating initiatives that support education professionals to enhance classroom practice and whole-of-school culture. It will also test and evaluate initiatives that support whānau to engage in the education of their learners and enable iwi and Māori organisations to facilitate and broker this engagement.

He Whakarākai Whanaungatanga ki waenga i Te Mana ā-Rohe me te Iwi/Māori ki te Hāpai Rangapū

Enhancing Relationships Between Local Government and Iwi/Māori to Improve Partnerships

Led by the Minister of Local Government. This initiative will support improved relationships between local government and iwi/Māori and support a strong and thriving Māori language. This will be done by providing facilitators to work with local authorities and Māori, creating a knowledge base on redress arrangements and providing assistance to encourage bilingual towns and cities as part of the Maihi Karauna Strategy for Māori Language Revitalisation.

He Whakawhānui i ngā Hōtaka Kawekawe ā-Hapori: He Hāpai Hua mō ngā Whāmere me ngā Whānau

Expanding Community-Based Collective Impact Programmes: Improving Outcomes for Families and Whānau

Led by the Minister for Social Development with the Associate Minister for Social Development. This initiative will expand on the Kainga Whānau Ora pilot programme currently running in Palmerston North. The programme continues to focus on building self-reliance by supporting whānau towards achieving their goals and aspirations. It focuses on improving housing and other social outcomes such as supporting children, boosting skills and employment, reducing reliance on benefits and improving the health of whānau. This will be done through cross-sector collaboration, funding additional Kaiwhakaaraara-Whānau Ora Navigators to work alongside whānau and the development and provision of whānau-led wellbeing programmes.

Kāinga Rua; Oranga Whānau: He Whare Whakaruruhau, he Whakapakari Whānau

Kāinga Rua; Oranga Whānau: Marae Resilience and Whānau Development

Led by the Minister for Māori Development, with the Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector and the Minister of Internal Affairs. This initiative aims to revitalise the physical and cultural infrastructure of marae, and support marae to develop their capability and capacity to support emergency management responses in their local communities. This will be done through increasing funding to the Oranga Marae programme for marae development planning and implementation, and additional support for individual marae for emergency management planning and preparedness.

Maihi Karauna: E Whakapiki Ake ana i Te Mana me te Whakamahinga o Te Reo Māori

Implementation of the Maihi Karauna Strategy: Increasing the Status and Use of Te Reo Māori

Led by the Minister for Māori Development. This initiative aims to support the revitalisation of te reo Māori through an increase in the status and use of the language across government and Aotearoa, as outlined in the Maihi Karauna Strategy and Te Ture mō Te Reo Māori 2016. This will be done through providing funding for Te Taura Whiri to lead the coordination of the implementation of the Maihi Karauna, and funding to support national and regional events that promote the active use of te reo Māori.

Maihi Māori me te Whare o Te Reo Mauri Ora: E Whakarauora ana i Te Reo Māori hei Reo Tuatahi

Implementation of the Maihi Māori and Te Whare o Te Reo Mauri Ora: Restoring Te Reo Māori as a Nurturing First Language

Led by the Minister for Māori Development. This initiative aims to support the restoration of te reo Māori as a nurturing first language and strengthen the partnership between Māori and the Crown in te reo Māori revitalisation, as set out in the Maihi Māori Strategy and Te Ture mō Te Reo Māori 2016. This will be done through funding for Te Mātāwai to enhance the implementation of its kāhui investment model, and resource to support its strategic and policy advice functions in relation to Maihi Karauna and Te Whare o Te Reo Mauri Ora.

Oranga Pāpori, Oranga Ōhanga mā te Whenua Māori

Social and Economic Development Through Whenua Māori

Jointly led by the Minister for Māori Development and the Minister of Justice. This initiative aims to lift incomes, skills and opportunities for Māori freehold landowners by supporting them to realise their whenua aspirations and transition from feasibility studies to investment readiness. This will be done by providing funding for new and enhanced Māori Land Court services, a whenua knowledge hub and website, and regional advisory support and investment.

Te Reo kia Rere: Kia Rangona Te Reo i te Huhua o ngā Pae Pāpāho

Innovative Te Reo Māori Media Content: Increasing Engagement with Te Reo Māori Across a Range of Media Platforms

Led by the Minister for Māori Development. This initiative aims to support the revitalisation of te reo Māori and the goals of the Maihi Karauna Strategy through increasing engagement with te reo Māori on broadcast and online platforms. This will be done through providing funding for Te Māngai Pāho to purchase new and innovative media content, in collaboration with the wider Māori Media sector. This content will have a particular focus on rangatahi audiences, and will be delivered across a range of platforms.

Te Whakahoutanga o te Kaupapa o ngā Wātene Māori: Kia Tū Roa tēnei Kaupapa hei Hāpai i te Oranga o te Whānau me te Hapori

Modernising the Māori Wardens: Enabling their Sustainable Contribution to Whānau and Community Wellbeing

Led by the Minister for Māori Development. This initiative aims to ensure that the Māori Wardens are well positioned to meet the increasingly diverse range of whānau and community needs and improve community wellbeing and safety. This will be done through investment in governance and management systems, and capability development for Māori Wardens.

Te Whakarauoratanga o te Rāngai Mahi: E whakawhānui ana i ngā tūranga Ākonga Mahi hei hiki i ngā putanga mahi

Improving Māori Labour Market Resilience: Expanding the Cadetships Initiative to Improve Employment Outcomes

Led by the Minister for Māori Development. This initiative aims to partner with employers to attract, retain and develop Māori employees in growth industries and occupations. This will be done through providing funding to employers to support the employment, development and mentoring of Māori cadets, including gaining workplace and formal industry skills and qualifications, leadership training, and opportunities to progress to senior positions.

Te Whakatū Papakāinga me te Whakapai Whare hei Huarahi ki te Hauora o te Whānau

Papakāinga Development and Rural Housing Repairs for Better Whānau Wellbeing

Led by the Minister for Māori Development. This initiative aims to raise Māori intergenerational wellbeing by taking a whānau-led approach to addressing housing and wider community needs. This will be done by providing funding for the Māori Housing Network to invest in additional papakāinga (Māori collectively owned homes), housing repairs and capability building programmes.

Supporting Māori health outcomes

He Kaupapa Hāpai Kaimahi Hauora Māori: He Ara Pupuri Mahi kia Āhei ngā Putanga Hauora Tōtika

Māori Health Workforce Development Package: Pathways to Ongoing Employment to Enable Equitable Health Outcomes

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative will contribute to improving Māori health outcomes by increasing the Māori health workforce. This will be done by providing a range of programmes across the training and development pipeline to incentivise and support Māori students and low-paid workers into paid health employment.

He Toko i Te Ao Auahatanga Hauora Māori: He Tahua Hauora Māori Auaha ki te Whakapiki i ngā Hua Hauora Māori

Increasing Te Ao Auahatanga Hauora Māori: Māori Health Innovation Fund to Improve Māori Health Outcomes

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative aims to increase the number and range of Māori health providers to support innovative health services that improve Māori health outcomes and reduce inequities. This will be done by increasing the funding available to support Māori health providers and increase the scale of successful interventions.

Supporting our Pacific communities

Enhancing Pacific Economic Development by Transforming the Pacific Business Trust

Led by the Minister for Pacific Peoples. This initiative will increase the capability and capacity of the Pacific Business Trust to deliver a wider range of business-facing services, including mentoring, training and marketing research and advice, to a larger cohort of Pacific businesses. This will be done through providing funding for increased communications, promotion and research to grow Pacific businesses in New Zealand.

Ensuring Pacific Languages Survive in New Zealand's Pacific Communities

Led by the Minister for Pacific Peoples. The initiative will support Pacific languages to survive in New Zealand through investment in education, research and community engagements. This will be achieved by establishing a new set of language support functions within the Ministry for Pacific Peoples.

Expanding the Pacific Employment Support Service to Reduce the Rate of Pacific Young People Not in Employment, Education or Training

Led by the Minister for Pacific Peoples. This initiative aims to decrease the rate of Pacific young people not in employment, education or training by expanding the Pacific Employment Support Service in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. This will be done through increasing funding for Pacific providers to place young people into employment, education or training.

Improving and Accelerating Education Outcomes for Pacific Learners

Led by the Associate Minister of Education, Hon Jenny Salesa. This initiative works to ensure that Pacific learners and their families have their identities, languages and cultures valued and respected and have the skills, knowledge, and equitable opportunities to pursue any education pathway. This will be done by partnering with communities to focus on achieving Pacific outcomes, growing the cultural competency of the workforce and providing opportunities to learn in Pacific languages.

Increasing Investment in Pacific Innovation Funds to Improve Pacific Health Outcomes

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative improves Pacific health outcomes and reduces inequities by supporting the development of innovative Pacific initiatives. This will be done through providing funding for the development and assessment of innovative community initiatives, including initiatives to share evidence-based Pacific models of care.

Increasing the Pacific Provider and Workforce Development Fund (PPWDF) to Support a Pacific Workforce Pipeline

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative will contribute to improving Pacific health outcomes by increasing the Pacific health workforce. This will be done by funding a strengthened Pacific workforce pipeline, from secondary school to tertiary study, work experience and placements with Pacific providers.

Reducing the Incidence and Improving the Management of Rheumatic Fever

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative will reduce the incidence and improve the management of rheumatic fever. This will be done through providing funding for programmes to improve access to primary care for rheumatic fever prevention and management among Māori and Pacific people in the Auckland region.

Senior Diverse Leaders: Specialised Pacific Skills, Leadership and Talent Pipeline Capability-Building Pilot

Led by the Minister for Economic Development. This initiative aims to ensure that Pacific peoples in New Zealand's public sector workforce are supported to play an active role in the delivery of the Government's economic strategy. Findings from the initiative will also inform the review of the State Sector Act 1988 in relation to diversity and inclusion outcomes. This will be done through providing funding for a specialised Pacific skills, leadership and talent pipeline capability-building pilot focused on identifying, enabling and delivering systems-change opportunities across public sector administration agencies.

Supporting Pacific Households into Home Ownership through Financial Capability Services

Led by the Minister of Housing and Urban Development. This initiative aims to lift Pacific incomes, skills and opportunities by assisting Pacific households into home ownership. This will be done by funding targeted financial capability services with information about the practicalities of purchasing a home, opportunities and assistance available to them, a plan to help them save for a deposit and advice to keep their ownership over time.

Support Programme for Pacific Students to Successfully Complete a Nursing/Midwifery Undergraduate Degree

Led by the Minister of Health, with Ministers of Education and Pacific Peoples. This initiative aims to increase the Pacific nursing and midwifery workforces to improve Pacific health outcomes, and lift Pacific employment. This will be done through providing funding for a joint programme of work between the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry for Pacific Peoples, Tertiary Education Commission and District Health Boards to explore how to raise Pacific participation in nursing/midwifery undergraduate degrees, and to contribute to developing the Pacific workforces.

Supporting Māori Crown relations and Treaty settlements

He Koke Whakamua i ngā Whiringa Whakatau o ngā Take Tiriti o Waitangi

Progressing Historical Treaty of Waitangi Settlement Negotiations

Led by the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations. This initiative aims to provide support to the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations to progress towards completion of historical Treaty of Waitangi settlement negotiations as quickly and as fairly as possible, by providing additional funding to the Office for Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti.

He Putunga Whakataunga Tiriti: Kia Whāia e Te Karauna kia Kāinga Mahana, Maroke, Haumaru me te Whakatutuki i ō mātou Kawenga Tiriti

Treaty Settlement Landbank: Ensuring the Crown Provides Warm, Dry and Safe Homes and We Meet Our Treaty Obligations

Led by the Minister for Land Information. This initiative will increase the quantity and quality of housing, address health and safety risks on Landbank properties and ensure properties are maintained in a state that is suitable for use in a Treaty of Waitangi settlement. This will be done through: meeting the expected cost of works, such as heating and insulation; roofing and fencing; and small-scale hazard removal, in line with regulatory requirements. It will also ensure the Crown's obligations to iwi are met, and Land Information New Zealand's responsibilities in managing the Treaty of Waitangi Landbank can be fulfilled.

He Putunga Whakataunga Tiriti: Kia Whakaitihia ngā Mōrearea Hauora me Haumaru me te Whakatutuki i ō mātou Kawenga Tiriti

Treaty Settlement Landbank: Work on Four Properties to Mitigate Health and Safety Risks and Meet Our Treaty Obligations

Led by the Minister for Land Information. This initiative will ensure Land Information New Zealand mitigates identified risks to health and safety on a number of Landbank properties, and meets its Treaty of Waitangi obligations to prepare the properties for use as either cultural or commercial redress in a Treaty of Waitangi settlement. This will be done through procuring the demolition and remediation of three properties and the replacement of the wastewater plant on one property.

He Rapunga Kaupapa Mana Wāhine: He Huringa Kaupapa Here me ngā Ratonga mō ngā Wāhine Māori

Mana Wāhine Kaupapa Inquiry: Transforming Policy and Services to Deliver for Wāhine Māori

Led by the Minister for Women. This initiative will support the Government and public sector to ensure high-quality participation in the Waitangi Tribunal's Mana Wāhine Kaupapa Inquiry. It will help transform the Government's response to the issues raised, the wellbeing of wāhine Māori and their whānau and support the work to build stronger relationships between Māori and the Crown. It will also increase public sector Crown-Māori capability.

He Tautoko i ngā Hononga Māori me Te Karauna: Te Arawhiti

Supporting the Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti Portfolio

Led by the Minister for Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti. This initiative aims to strengthen the Crown's capability to engage meaningfully with Māori. This will be achieved through providing funding for the delivery of Te Arawhiti's responsibilities under the Māori Crown Relations portfolio, including the operational costs of the Māori Crown Relations Unit. It also supports the ongoing costs of the operation of Te Arawhiti as a departmental agency.

Ko Ngā Kaupapa Matua: He Tautoko, he Whakanui i ngā Hui Whakahirahira

Ngā Kaupapa Matua: Supporting and Celebrating Te Ao Māori Significant Events

Led by the Minister for Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti. This initiative aims to strengthen a shared national identity that recognises, values and encourages te ao Māori. This will be achieved through providing funding arrangements for a number of significant events to enable longer-term planning. This will support the Government's priorities of valuing who we are as a country and building closer partnerships with Māori.

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Bridging the venture capital gap and supporting innovation

Building Early Stage Capital Market Development

Led by the Minister for Economic Development. This initiative aims to provide investment into early stage capital markets. This will be done through funding venture capital funds. Multiple venture capital funds will be created, offering highly specialised capability and expertise.

Business Connect: Digitally Connecting Businesses with Central and Local Government

Led by the Minister for Small Business. This initiative aims to enable a critical mass of business-focused services to be delivered by both local and central government on a common cross-agency digital platform. This will be done through establishing a catalogue of services, business rules and information that can be reused by agencies across government and enabling the platform to become self-funding from 2021.

Commercialisation of Innovation

Led by the Minister of Research, Science and Innovation. This package of initiatives aims to maximise the impact of public investment in research and science by providing effective pathways for knowledge transfer into the economy. This will be done through providing funding for: increased support for the Commercialisation Partner Network Fund and the PreSeed Accelerator Fund; scaling up the Technology Incubator programme; and support for ‘start-up' businesses.

Future-Proofing New Zealand's Manufacturing Sector by Driving Industry 4.0 Uptake and Skills Development

Led by the Minister for Economic Development. This initiative aims to: improve understanding of manufacturers' skills needs and the gaps in development pathways; increase the uptake of Industry 4.0; improve skills pathways; and improve the productivity and competitiveness of New Zealand firms. This will be done through funding an Industry 4.0 demonstration network consisting of a mobile industry showcase, a network of Industry 4.0 site visits and up to two ‘smart factories'.

Gracefield Innovation Quarter Programme Business Case

Led by the Minister of Research, Science and Innovation. This initiative enables Callaghan Innovation to redevelop the Gracefield Innovation Quarter. This will be done by addressing health and safety deficiencies, including earthquake-prone buildings, end-of-life asbestos, leaking roofs, black mould, ant infestations, ageing infrastructure and general dilapidation. The funding also provides for development of a long-term strategic vision for the site.

Improved Satellite-Based Positioning to Increase Innovation, Safety and Efficiency

Led by the Minister for Land Information, with involvement from the Minister of Transport. This initiative will explore opportunities for New Zealanders to access the global positioning technology using a satellite-based augmentation system. This is necessary to support the adoption and creation of new technologies and products.

Innovative Partnerships Programme

Led by the Minister of Research, Science and Innovation. This initiative seeks to attract globally-leading firms and innovators. This will be done through developing New Zealand's competitive advantage in transformative technologies and new sectors that support the Government's vision for a more sustainable, diversified, productive and inclusive economy.

New Zealand Screen Production Grants: Domestic

Led by the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage. This initiative will meet increased demand from eligible New Zealand productions, in line with the demand-driven, uncapped, non-discretionary New Zealand Screen Production Grants - New Zealand scheme. These grants promote industry development and cultural benefits for New Zealand.

New Zealand Screen Production Grants: International

Led by the Minister for Economic Development. This initiative aims to incentivise international screen work to be undertaken in New Zealand. This will be done through providing funding to support the continuation of an existing grant scheme. International screen work is a direct source of foreign expenditure, contributing to employment and economic activity and support to other sectors such as tourism and education.

New Zealand Superannuation - Contributions to Support Venture Capital

This initiative repurposes $240 million of funding previously earmarked for contribution to the New Zealand Superannuation Fund and uses the funding for Crown investment into early stage capital markets. There will still be a contribution of $9.6 billion to the Superannuation Fund in this Budget.

NZTE: International Support for New Zealand Businesses

Led by the Minister for Economic Development. This initiative aims to allow New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) to continue supporting New Zealand businesses in international markets.

Ongoing Operation of New Zealand Food Innovation Network

Led by the Minister of Research, Science and Innovation. This initiative aims to contribute to the Government's goal to raise Research and Development expenditure to 2 per cent of GDP and thereby support an innovative economy and helping the transition to a low-emissions economy. This will be done through allowing the New Zealand Food Innovation Network (NZFIN) to continue operating while a new funding model is developed.

Skills for the future

Increasing Tertiary Tuition and Training Subsidies: Maintaining Quality Tertiary Education

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to maintain quality education by meeting cost pressures such as increases in wages and salaries. This will be done by increasing subsidy rates paid to Tertiary Education Organisations from the Tertiary Tuition and Training Multi-Category Appropriation by 1.8 per cent from the start of 2020. This includes subsidies for Community Education, Student Achievement Component funding at all qualification levels, Youth Guarantee and Gateway programmes and the Industry Training Fund.

Increasing WorkSafe New Zealand's Capacity to Improve the Health and Safety Outcomes of Workers in New Zealand*

Led by the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety. This initiative aims to improve the health and safety outcomes of workers in New Zealand. This will be achieved through: funding unmet costs from WorkSafe New Zealand's existing service delivery; increasing WorkSafe New Zealand's specialist capacity in the inspectorate and legal services; furthering education and guidance support; and planning towards modernising WorkSafe New Zealand to become an intelligence-led and technology-enabled regulator.

Mana in Mahi: Employment Programme to Support Successful Transition into Sustainable Work

Led by the Minister for Social Development, with the Minister for Employment. This initiative aims to support people on a benefit, particularly 18-24 years old, to find and stay in employment. This will be done by providing funding for a wage subsidy to employers who hire someone in receipt of a main benefit and offer that person industry training qualification opportunities, and support for employers and participants.

Preparing for the Future of Work and a Just Transition to a Low-Emissions Economy

Led jointly by the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety and the Minister for Energy and Resources. This initiative aims to ensure that New Zealand is well placed to meet the challenges and opportunities posed by climate change, technological change, demographic change and globalisation. This will be achieved through funding additional policy resource for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment to continue working on the Government's ambitious policy agendas on the future of work and a just transition to a low-emissions economy.

Reform of Vocational Education

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative will support the transition to a thriving vocational education system that better responds to learners', employers' and regions' needs by implementing the Government's Reform of Vocational Education (RoVE). This will include changes to institutional forms and systems to support the ongoing sustainability of a broad range of delivery across New Zealand.

School Leavers' Toolkit

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to increase opportunities for students aged 13 to 18 to develop civics knowledge and skills, financial literacy and key workplace competencies before they leave school. This will be done by funding for a package of tools, resources and targeted curriculum support for educators. It will also fund a Toolkit website and the development of ways to credential Toolkit learning.

Support for Unitec Institute of Technology

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative established an interest-free concessionary loan facility of up to $50 million from August 2018 for Unitec Institute of Technology to be repaid within 10 years. This loan is necessary for Unitec to manage cash flow issues and also supports right-sizing initiatives to ensure continuity of education and training programmes for students.

A secure digital nation

Computer Emergency Response Team: New Zealand Cyber Security Funding

Led by the Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media. This initiative aims to ensure the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) New Zealand is adequately funded to fulfil its Cabinet-mandated functions.

Computers in Homes

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to contribute to positive outcomes for learning, psychological development, social skills and parental engagement through improving internet access in the home. This will be done through continuing funding for a Computers in Homes-type programme which will provide devices, training, technical support and support for home internet connectivity to learners and their families.

Digital Literacy Training for Seniors

Led by the Minister for Government Digital Services, with delivery to be led by the Minister for Seniors. This initiative supports seniors to adapt to changing technology, engage fully in the community and the workplace and access digital information and services. This will be done by providing funding for nationwide digital literacy training for seniors.

Government Chief Digital Officer: Supporting the Government's Digital Transformation

Led by the Minister for Government Digital Services. This initiative ensures the Government's digital transformation continues. This will be done by supporting delivery of innovative government services through the Government Digital Partnership Innovation Fund, and providing additional funding for the Government Chief Digital Officer.

Implementation of the Cyber Security Strategy 2019

Led by the Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media. This initiative supports New Zealand's response to the growing scope, scale and sophistication of cyber threats. This will be done through providing funding to support activities that address cyber security threats and improve cyber security resilience.

Investment in Cyber Security

This is led by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. This funding will enable a lift in cyber security capability to meet the expectations of customers and to protect systems from external threats.

SuperGold Card: Improving Financial Wellbeing Through Better Access to Discounts and Concessions

Led by the Minister for Seniors, with the Minister for Social Development. This initiative aims to increase seniors' financial wellbeing, and improve their social inclusion. This will be done through providing funding to improve access to SuperGold information and discounts, through the development of a mobile app, enhanced SuperGold website and increased promotion of the SuperGold Card and associated discounts.

Supporting the Operation of RealMe

Led by the Minister of Internal Affairs. This initiative helps to maintain the delivery of efficient and accessible online government services for New Zealanders. This will be done by providing funding to continue the operation of RealMe, which provides a secure way for New Zealanders to access a range of online services and prove their identity.

Delivering national statistics and enhanced wellbeing data

Addressing Learners' Needs by Improving Data Quality, Availability, Timeliness and Capability

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative provides a data system that enables a joined-up approach to data about student progress and learning support needs throughout schooling.

New Zealand Census of Population and Dwellings: Complete the 2018 Census and Commence the 2023 Census

Led by the Minister for Statistics. This initiative ensures Stats NZ completes 2018 Census products and services, and funds the first year of fundamental work required to deliver the next census in 2023. The funding will be used to prepare a detailed business case. This will include reviewing and considering the outcomes and recommendations from the independent review of the 2018 Census and will involve strong stakeholder engagement, particularly working with Māori under Ti Tiriti o Waitangi. The programme will consider a transition to a model that predominantly uses administrative data. Stats NZ will bid in Budget 2020 to fund the remainder of the programme.

Stats NZ: Maintaining Statistical Products and Services, Data Services and Data System Leadership

Led by the Minister for Statistics. This initiative ensures Stats NZ can maintain current products and services by covering a growing shortfall in operating expenditure owing to cost and demand pressures and a declining nominal baseline. As a result, Stats NZ will maintain: economic and business data and statistical information services; population, social and labour market data and statistical information services; and stewardship of government data.

Supporting Evidence-Based Policy on Child Wellbeing by Continuing the Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) Study

Led by the Minister for Social Development. This initiative aims to enhance children's social, educational and health outcomes through improving the evidence base for policy interventions for children and families. This will be done by providing funding to continue the GUiNZ data collection when the study-children turn 11 years old. This child-centred longitudinal data will be used to inform the proposed Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy.

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Investing in rail and sustainable transport

Auckland City Rail Link: To Improve Access to Employment and Education in Auckland Central

Led by the Minister of Transport. The City Rail Link project is expected to improve access to the city centre; reduce travel times and reduce traffic congestion; double capacity on the Auckland rail network; and provide for commercial and residential development. This initiative includes $855 million for the original cost of the project (shared equally with Auckland City Council), $406 million for the ability to cope with cost pressures as a result of market conditions, and $134 million to increase benefits of the project through enabling the running of nine-car trains and increased station capacities.

Future of Rail: Begin the Process of Replacing the Interisland Ferries to Support a Resilient and Reliable Freight Rail System

Led by the Minister of Transport and the Minister for State Owned Enterprises. This initiative aims to ensure the ferries between the North Island and the South Island continue to support economic growth through the movement of freight and passengers, as well as reduce carbon emissions. The funding will begin the process of replacing the Interislander ships that are at the end of their serviceable and economic lives. This funding will enable KiwiRail to develop concept designs, prepare for procurement, acquire technical expertise and explore financing options.

Future of Rail: Replacing Rolling Stock to Support a Resilient and Reliable Rail Freight System

Led by the Minister of Transport and the Minister for State Owned Enterprises. This initiative aims to ensure rail can continue to support economic growth through the movement of freight, as well as reduce carbon emissions. The funding is to replace rolling stock (locomotives and wagons) that have reached, or will soon reach, the end of their useful lives. It also provides funding for upgrades to KiwiRail’s mechanical maintenance facilities so they can be more effective and efficient in providing ongoing maintenance of the new rolling stock fleet.

Future of Rail: Working Capital to Support a Resilient and Reliable Freight Rail System

Led by the Minister of Transport and the Minister for State Owned Enterprises. This initiative aims to ensure rail can continue to support economic growth through the movement of freight and passengers, as well as reduce carbon emissions. The funding provides capital to address legacy issues and maintain safe, fit-for-purpose rail and tourist infrastructure. This initiative also provides funding to implement the Future of Rail review recommendations, including the proposed new planning and funding framework, which will be led by the Ministry of Transport.

Investigating a Green Transport Card to Make Public Transport More Affordable for Low-Income Households

Led by the Minister for Transport with the Minister for Social Development. This initiative aims to make it more affordable for low-income households to use public transport, and to improve their access to social and economic opportunities. The funding will enable the policy development of a Green Transport Card, which would entitle Community Services Card holders to public transport fare concessions. This funding will be used to establish operational systems (eg, card development, administration and production costs) for the Green Transport Card, for use in the future.

Rail - Maintaining an Electric Locomotive Fleet on the North Island Main Trunk Line

Led by the Minister of Transport and the Minister for State Owned Enterprises. This initiative aims to ensure that a significant portion of rail freight services between Hamilton and Palmerston North continue to be provided by electric locomotives in order to help the Government meet its long-term emissions goals and boost the economy to protect New Zealand's economy and environment. The funding will be used to refurbish the electric control system and 15 electric trains that would otherwise have had to be retired.

A sustainable future - policy and institutional change

Accelerating a Local Government Reform Programme to Enhance Community Wellbeing and Strengthen Local Governance

Led by the Minister of Local Government. This initiative helps to enhance community wellbeing and strengthen local governance. This will be done by funding additional staff to work with local government to make improvements to water services, develop strategies to manage natural hazards and climate change and improve local government financial sustainability.

Bonamia Response: Compensation and Operating Costs

Led by the Minister for Biosecurity. This initiative provides for outstanding costs associated with the 2015 biosecurity response to Bonamia ostreae, a parasitic infection in New Zealand's farmed and wild oysters. This funding will meet the expected legal liability for outstanding compensation claims associated with destruction of oysters and equipment from 14 Stewart Island oyster farms. It also funds unbudgeted Ministry for Primary Industry costs in 2018/19, for biosecurity response-related surveillance and the transition to long-term pest management.

Delivering Better Responses to Emergencies: Building National Crisis Management Centre Resilience

Led by the Minister of Civil Defence. This initiative improves the resilience of New Zealand's national emergency response capabilities. This will be done through providing funding to implement arrangements to manage a national crisis if the National Crisis Management Centre (NCMC) in Wellington is unavailable.

Delivering Better Responses to Emergencies: Establishing a New National Emergency Management Agency

Led by the Minister of Civil Defence. This initiative will strengthen leadership of the emergency management system. This will be done by providing funding to establish a new national emergency management agency (NEMA) to replace the existing Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management (MCDEM). Existing MCDEM functions will transfer into NEMA and some high-priority functions will be strengthened.

Delivering Better Responses to Emergencies: Establishing Fly-In Teams

Led by the Minister of Civil Defence. This initiative provides for the capital requirements associated with establishing fly-in teams to support the response to emergencies in New Zealand.

Eradicating Mycoplasma Bovis

Led by the Minister for Biosecurity. This initiative supports additional biosecurity response activities to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis. It will fund operational activities, including surveillance, tracking, movement controls and culling infected animals. The funding will also contribute to the legal liability for compensation costs, primarily associated with the loss of stock and milk production.

Funding to Continue Protecting New Zealand from Imported Threats

Led by the Minister of Customs, in conjunction with the Minister for Biosecurity. This initiative aims to ensure that Customs can: maintain its current ability to manage risks at the border; efficiently and effectively clear goods for entry into New Zealand; and keep pace with the forecasted 23 per cent growth in trade volumes by 2020/21. This will be achieved through funding to offset the loss of third party revenue forgone as a result of Inland Revenue's new system for collecting GST on imported low-value goods.

Growing Compliance and Enforcement Capacity for Food Safety, Animal Welfare and Fisheries*

Led by the Minister of Agriculture. This initiative will improve the Ministry for Primary Industry's capacity to detect and respond to increasing non-compliance in the areas of food safety, animal welfare and fisheries. This will be done through providing funding for: improving the regional presence for Food Safety, Animal Welfare and Fisheries officers; providing funding to support the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in delivering their animal welfare compliance and enforcement function; and investing in health and safety monitoring equipment in the field.

Implementation of the Global Harmonised System of Chemical Classifications and a New Hazardous Substances Database

Led by Associate Minister for the Environment, Hon Eugenie Sage. This initiative will improve the safe use of chemicals in workplaces and by consumers. This will be done through providing funding to align New Zealand's chemicals classification and labelling system with international practices and to create a new hazardous substances database.

Implementing Improved Monitoring of Fishing Catch on Commercial Fishing Vessels - Providing Greater Assurance of Sustainable Fishing Practices

Led by the Minister of Fisheries. This initiative aims to give greater assurance of sustainable commercial fishing practices through improved monitoring of fishing catch. This will be done by providing funding to support a proof of concept. This will enable Fisheries New Zealand to develop and refine the approach for any future stages.

Improving New Zealand's Resource Efficiency by Reducing Waste

Led by the Associate Minister for the Environment, Hon Eugenie Sage. This initiative will facilitate the transition to a circular economy. This will be done through providing funding to improve the Ministry for the Environment's policy capability to progress resource efficiency and reduce waste.

Improving the Safety and Security of Conservation Workers and Volunteers

Led by the Minister of Conservation. This initiative aims to ensure Department of Conservation employees and volunteers are safe and secure while at work. This will be done through providing funding for three FTEs for a Chief Security Officer support team and increasing the Department of Conservation's health and safety presence in the regions by 15 FTEs.

Increasing and Improving the Management of Crown Pastoral Land

Led by the Minister for Land Information. This initiative aims to support lower impact land use. This will be achieved through increasing Land Information New Zealand's capability and capacity to manage approximately 1.2 million hectares of Crown pastoral land.

Making New Zealand Households and Businesses Safer During Severe Weather Events: Public Safety Weather Forecasting

Led by the Minister of Transport. This is part of the Making New Zealand Households and Businesses Safer During Severe Weather Events package. This initiative will make households and businesses safer by maintaining the accuracy and timeliness of severe weather warning forecasting services. It will also provide important information to emergency response agencies. The funding will enable MetService, our national meteorological service, to continue to make investments in the people and systems used to deliver these forecasts.

Making New Zealand Households and Businesses Safer During Severe Weather Events: Weather Radar Upgrades

Led by the Minister of Transport. This is part of the Making New Zealand Households and Businesses Safer During Severe Weather Events package. This initiative will make households and businesses safer by maintaining the accuracy and timeliness of severe weather warning forecasting services. It will provide important information to emergency response agencies. The funding will enable MetService, our national meteorological service, to replace weather radars that are at the end of their serviceable and economic lives. This is important given the changing climate and severe weather events. This initiative will deliver upgraded radar infrastructure in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch and the surrounding regions.

Maritime Non-Oil Incident Response: Enabling New Zealand to Effectively Respond to Non-Oil Pollution Incidents at Sea

Led by the Minister of Transport. This initiative aims to ensure the impacts of a non-oil maritime incident to our environment and economy are minimised. This funding will enable Maritime New Zealand and its response partners to continue to conduct the training, carry out the drills and purchase the equipment needed to ensure New Zealand is ready in the event of an incident.

Productive and Sustainable Land Use: Climate Change Commission and Government Response

Led by the Minister for Climate Change. The initiative aims to support New Zealand's transition to more sustainable land use and a low emissions and climate resilient economy. This will be done by providing funding to: establish key institutions and regulations through implementation of the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act and an Emissions Trading Scheme auctioning platform, and ensure the Government has the resources to deliver on its obligations and commitments.

Productive and Sustainable Land Use: Enabling the Transition in Agriculture

Led by the Minister of Agriculture with the Minister for the Environment and the Minister for Climate Change. This initiative is part of the Productive and Sustainable Land Use package of initiatives. This initiative will support more sustainable land use practice in the agriculture sector. This will be done through providing funding for: on-the-ground advice to farmers; supporting Māori agribusiness; information, tools and advice to support farmers making change to more environmentally sustainable and higher value production, including organics; improving on-farm emissions data and upgrading decision and regulatory tools; and protecting high-value food exports and updating our official assurances system.

Productive and Sustainable Land Use: Freshwater and Transition to a Sustainable and Low Emissions Economy

Led by the Minister for the Environment with the Minister for Agriculture and the Minister for Climate Change. This initiative forms part of the Productive and Sustainable Land Use package. This initiative will provide funding to establish key institutions and regulations through: implementation of the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act and an Emissions Trading Scheme auctioning platform; developing good management practice standards and guidance across farm systems; addressing freshwater over-allocation and Māori rights and interests in freshwater; as well as providing funding to invest in at-risk catchments and wetlands restoration, and supporting councils, businesses and regions.

Protecting Lakes, Rivers and Lands from Invasive Pests and Weeds

Led by the Minister for Land Information. This initiative aims to minimise the high risk of major pest and weed outbreaks in many iconic lakes, rivers and lands stewarded by the Crown. This will be done by providing for the acceleration and enhancement of existing biosecurity programmes, and prioritisation of key sites.

Response Activities to Eliminate Fruit Flies in Auckland

Led by the Minister for Biosecurity. This initiative provides for additional biosecurity response activities and compensation costs associated with the discovery of fruit flies in the Auckland region between February and April 2019. It will fund extended surveillance, management of risk material and fruit fly trapping in three suburbs of Auckland to ensure that fruit flies cannot establish and maintain a breeding population.

Schools Energy Efficiency Package

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to improve the sustainability of the school property portfolio, including energy efficiency, in support of wider government goals. This will be done through providing funding for new measures such as an Environmental Action Plan, progressive replacement of current school lighting with LEDs and an energy efficiency trial and contestable fund.

Securing and Strengthening the Resilience of the Biosecurity System

Led by the Minister for Biosecurity. This initiative will build greater resilience and more effective risk management in the biosecurity system. This will be done through providing funding for: fit for purpose workforce planning and management systems to ensure New Zealand's border service workforce is efficiently deployed and managed across New Zealand; improving diagnostic and surveillance capability to respond to growing volumes and diversifying MPI's scientific expertise; Tiaki, a programme which will provide MPI with a better IT system to manage biosecurity responses; and building MPI's capability to better manage marine and freshwater biosecurity risks.

Strategic Science Solutions to Combat Kauri Dieback

Led by the Minister of Research, Science and Innovation. This initiative aims to provide a critical foundation for effective management of kauri dieback. This will be done through funding new strategic research to inform the development of new tools and approaches to counter kauri dieback.

Strengthening the Integrity of the Environmental Management System

Led by the Minister for the Environment. This initiative will enable New Zealand to better manage economic and urban growth within environmental limits. This will be done through providing funding for comprehensive reform of the resource management system, and the improvement of implementation, compliance, and enforcement of National Direction. Funding is also provided for strengthening the Ministry for the Environment's regulatory stewardship role through improving science and data capability and investment in digital services, data stewardship, and analytics.

The One Billion Trees Programme

Led by the Minister of Forestry. This initiative supports the one billion tree programme and increases tree planting by lowering planting barriers for landowners and improving incentives to support planting. It will fund the grants scheme and partnerships fund, and the associated administrative costs, to increase the rate of tree planning.

Tsunami Monitoring and Detection Network

Led by the Minister of Civil Defence. This initiative provides for the capital cost of establishing a tsunami monitoring and detection network. This will be achieved through the purchase of specialised tsunami detection equipment and systems for deep-ocean installation.

Watts Peninsula: Improving Wellbeing Through the Establishment of a Reserve

Led by the Minister for Land Information. This funding will provide recreational, safety and cultural benefits through the establishment of a reserve at Watts Peninsula in Wellington. Funding will be used to prepare the land for public access and for site maintenance until the reserve is established. Wellington City Council, which will also be contributing to the project, will meet all operational costs once the reserve is established in 2022.

Meeting the climate change challenge

Advanced Energy Technology Platform

Led by the Minister of Research, Science and Innovation. This initiative aims to further enhance New Zealand's world-class capability in niche areas of energy research, opening up significant opportunities for New Zealand businesses while assisting the world to transition to a low-emissions economy. This will be done through providing funding for the creation of the Advanced Energy Technology Platform (AETP) - a new platform under the Strategic Science Investment Fund.

Agricultural Climate Change Research Platform

Led by the Minister of Research, Science and Innovation. This initiative aims to support a programme of world-class climate change research for agriculture. Science and technology will be critical to a transition to low-emissions, climate-resilient food production. It is expected that industry will invest alongside government, particularly with respect to the industry-good elements.

Establishing a National New-Energy Development Centre in Taranaki

Jointly led by the Minister for Energy and Resources and the Minister for Economic Development. This funding will support the establishment and operations of a National New-Energy Development Centre to help lead New Zealand's transition to a low-carbon economy. We are basing the centre in Taranaki to capitalise on the region's talent, infrastructure and international connections, but it will serve as a national energy systems integrator working across multiple organisations, agencies and locations. The centre will work closely with industry to test and trial technologies across a range of new energy forms, provide access to critical infrastructure and enable the development and deployment of new technologies. The centre will ultimately help ensure a secure, affordable and sustainable energy supply for our homes, communities and industries and improve our capacity to deliver on national and global emissions targets.

Industry Futures (Bioresource Processing Alliance and Product Accelerator)

Led by the Minister of Research, Science and Innovation. This initiative contributes to the Government's goal to raise Research and Development expenditure to 2 per cent of GDP, thereby supporting an innovative economy and helping the transition to a low-emissions economy. This will allow the continuation of two programmes: the Product Accelerator, which helps to develop technologies that create new products, new market opportunities and grow New Zealand's exports; and the Bioresource Processing Alliance (BPA), which co-funds and co-develops innovative products or processes to turn low-value biological waste streams into new high-value products.

Leading Internationally Through the Global Research Alliance to Reduce Agricultural Emissions

Led by the Minister of Agriculture with the Minister for the Environment and the Minister for Climate Change. This initiative supports accelerated global agricultural emissions mitigation research and collective action to reduce agricultural emissions. This will be done through funding New Zealand's continued leadership, participation and investment in the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA). This supports: New Zealand's work with other countries to build capability of researchers, policy makers and farmers; hosting of the GRA Secretariat; and leadership of GRA's livestock research group.

Our Place in Antarctica: Enabling the Redevelopment of Scott Base into a Safe, Fit-For-Purpose Facility

Led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. This initiative is the first stage in the redevelopment of Scott Base into a safe, fit-for-purpose facility. The current facility is reaching the end of its functional life and safety risks are escalating. This stage involves design, engaging with the construction market and undertaking a process for the procurement of a main contractor to ensure greater certainty of expected build costs and project duration. Implementation funding will be sought in a future Budget.

Supporting regional economic development and growth

The Provincial Growth Fund

This funding will support projects through the Provincial Growth Fund that lift regional productivity potential. Together with the $1 billion counted towards the Fund in Budget 2018, the funding allocated to regional economic development in other Votes from Budget 2019, and funding allocated from Budget 2020, this will bring the total funding for the Provincial Growth Fund to $3 billion.

Transforming New Zealand Forestry: Growing a Vibrant and Inclusive Low-Emissions Economy

Led by the Minister of Forestry. This initiative supports scaling up Te Uru Rākau to promote the growth and ongoing sustainability of the forestry sector. This will be achieved by funding the development of a modern Forestry Strategy, implementing a workforce strategy to provide sustainable jobs, training and career pathways, and reviewing the climate change information system that underpins forestry's support of the Government's low-emissions target. This funding will also allow Te Uru Rākau to increase its regional presence to add more value to forestry and support local landowners in achieving increased value from their land through forestry.

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Arts, culture and heritage

Conservation of Newly Found Wet Organic Taonga Tūturu

Led by the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage. This initiative will address immediate risks to the sustainability of services to conserve newly found wet organic taonga tūturu - objects that are over 50 years old and relate to Māori culture, history or society. This is a legislated obligation for the Crown under the Protected Objects Act 1975.

Establishing a National Centre for Music to Expand Options for Access, Participation, Education and Film Scoring

Led by the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage. This initiative will enable fitout for nationally significant cultural infrastructure at the Wellington Town Hall. The Digital Venue will provide film scoring opportunities, multimedia performances, increased reach and online delivery. The partnership between New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO) and Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music will form a Centre for Music Education. The NZSO will have new strategic opportunities and operating efficiencies with a permanent home supporting reduced costs, increased revenue streams and the technological capability to transform activities.

Improving Remuneration and Development Opportunities for Artists and Arts Practitioners Through Payment of a Fairer Wage

Led by the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage. This initiative will enable Creative New Zealand to improve arts practitioners' working conditions by funding them at fairer wage levels. This emphasises the value of their work in our society, improves career sustainability and personal wellbeing and helps to create a more resilient arts sector.

Increasing Preservation of Audiovisual Archive

Led by the Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage. This initiative will increase the rate of digital preservation of New Zealand's historic sound and vision archive, Ngā Taonga.

Investment in Te Papa Tongarewa

Led by the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage. This initiative will enable Te Papa to manage its infrastructure upgrade and replacement programme over a number of years. It provides for seismic strengthening of the Tory Street building, which houses nationally significant collections.

Attorney-General

Crown Law: Responding to Funding Pressures

Led by the Attorney-General. This initiative will improve access to legal advice and strengthen the influence of the rule of law by funding operating cost pressures (excluding remuneration pressures). Expected costs include discharging the Principal Law Officers' constitutional and criminal law responsibilities.

Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media

Investing in Identity: A Thriving Nation Nāku te rourou, Nāu te rourou, Ka ora ai te iwi

Led by the Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media. This initiative will allow New Zealand On Air to continue to support the production of quality content, with a focus on powerful New Zealand stories. This initiative recognises the important role public media has in contributing to our national identity and wellbeing. The funding is time limited, pending decisions on the future of public media in New Zealand.

Strengthening Radio New Zealand: The Cornerstone of Public Media in Aotearoa

Led by the Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media. This initiative will enable Radio New Zealand (RNZ) to continue to provide quality New Zealand programming and journalism. It will also assist RNZ to use new platforms to reach audiences when, where, and how they want to be reached. This initiative recognises the critical role RNZ has in connecting and informing New Zealanders, providing trusted and accurate news and information, and showcasing New Zealand's diverse audiences. The funding is time limited, pending decisions on the future of public media in New Zealand.

Building and Construction

Residential Earthquake Prone Building Financial Assistance Scheme

Led by the Minister for Building and Construction. This funding supports the remediation of multi-unit, multi-storey residential earthquake-prone buildings in high seismic risk areas through a suspensory loan scheme. It will be available to owners of such units who are in, or facing, financial hardship, where properties were purchased or acquired before 1 July 2017.

Children

Oranga Tamariki Social Workers Pay Equity Claim Settlement

Led by the Minister for Children. This initiative aims to maintain current outcomes for New Zealand children and strengthen the social work profession, by paying statutory social workers in line with the 2018 social worker pay equity settlement.

Commerce and Consumer Affairs

Improving Consumer Protection Under the Credit Contract and Consumer Finance Act 2003

Led by the Minister of Consumer and Commerce Affairs, this initiative will support the reform of the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003 to better protect consumers from predatory and irresponsible lending practices. The funding sought will increase the Commerce Commission's level of credit enforcement, education and advocacy to an appropriate level to support the legislative changes.

Corrections

Offenders in the Community: Retaining Safe and Effective Community-Based Sentences and Orders

Led by the Minister of Corrections. This initiative provides safe and effective alternatives to imprisonment through community-based sentences and orders by funding cost pressures including: increased use of electronic monitoring; increased demand for intensive monitoring for the highest risk offenders in the community; and collective wage pressures.

Restoring a Safe and Effective Prison Network

Led by the Minister of Corrections. This initiative will restore a safe, effective and quality prison network by funding cost pressures including remand resourcing pressures, costs for activating and transitioning to new capacity and collective wage pressures under negotiation.

Courts

Alleviating Depreciation Cost Pressures in the Justice System Owing to Revaluation of Property

Led by the Minister for Courts. This initiative will alleviate the depreciation cost pressure from revaluation of court properties. This will be achieved by funding increased depreciation costs resulting from the previous financial year's revaluation of properties.

Canterbury Earthquakes Insurance Tribunal

Led by the Minister for Courts. The Government intends to establish a tribunal to resolve remaining Canterbury earthquakes insurance claims more quickly, fairly and cheaply. In August 2018, Cabinet agreed to establish the Canterbury Earthquakes Insurance Tribunal (the Tribunal) to resolve insurance disputes, providing an alternative pathway for claimants, the Earthquake Commission and insurers. This will be achieved by providing funding for the operation of the Tribunal in the 2019/20 fiscal year.

Enhancing Court Security

Led by the Minister for Courts. This initiative aims to: mitigate risks associated with the safety of all court users across New Zealand; prevent damage to property; and enable court proceedings to be delivered in a safe and timely manner. This will be achieved by providing funding to maintain the current level of court security personnel across New Zealand's court system.

Human Rights Review Tribunal: Increasing Access to Justice for People Whose Human Rights May Have Been Breached

Led by the Minister for Courts. This initiative aims to provide timely access to justice to people who have lodged a claim with the Human Rights Review Tribunal (the Tribunal). This will be done by providing funding to appoint Deputy Chairpersons to the Tribunal, who can hear and determine more people's claims.

Defence

Future Air Surveillance Capability: Boeing P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft

Led by the Minister of Defence. This initiative is to fund the acquisition of four Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft and the training systems, infrastructure, mission support and other services required to operate them. This investment contributes to maritime domain awareness and response, one of the particular capability requirements identified in the Strategic Defence Policy Statement 2018. It will enable the New Zealand Defence Force to continue to deliver air surveillance, resource protection, and search and rescue, increasing the safety and security of New Zealand, our region and our international partners.

Generation of Air Force Capabilities to Deliver the Strategic Defence Policy Statement 2018

Led by the Minister of Defence. This funding will, in line with the Strategic Defence Policy Statement 2018, sustain the generation of Air Force capabilities to achieve the levels of readiness for military operations and other tasks as directed by the Government. These capabilities include air surveillance and response, naval operations, security and stability operations and projection and sustainment.

Generation of Army Capabilities to Deliver the Strategic Defence Policy Statement 2018

Led by the Minister of Defence. This funding will, in line with the Strategic Defence Policy Statement 2018, sustain Army capabilities to achieve the levels of readiness for military operations and other tasks as directed by the Government. These capabilities include the generation and preparation of multi-purpose, combat-capable land and special operations forces that are optimised for joint land combat and a wide range of security events, such as regional crises and non-combat inter-agency operations and tasks in New Zealand.

Generation of Defence Estate to Support Delivery of the Strategic Defence Policy Statement 2018

Led by the Minister of Defence. This funding will, in line with the Strategic Defence Policy Statement 2018, sustain the Defence Estate, which supports the Defence Force in ensuring appropriate levels of readiness for military operations and other tasks as directed by the Government. The Defence Estate includes land, buildings and related infrastructure.

Generation of Enablers to Support Delivery of the Strategic Defence Policy Statement 2018

Led by the Minister of Defence. This funding will, in line with the Strategic Defence Policy Statement 2018, sustain a diverse range of supporting defence-wide capabilities that are critical to enabling the levels of readiness for military operations and other tasks as directed by the Government. These include Defence Health, Military Police, ICT infrastructure concerns, strategic projects and military capabilities impacted by price increases for key commodities.

Generation of Navy Capabilities to Deliver the Strategic Defence Policy Statement 2018

Led by the Minister of Defence. This funding will, in line with the Strategic Defence Policy Statement 2018, sustain the generation of Navy capabilities to achieve the required levels of readiness of personnel, fleet and equipment for military operations; the delivery of outputs (now and into the future); and other tasks as directed by the Government. These capabilities include naval combat, naval patrol, naval projection and sustainment.

Generation of People Capability to Support Delivery of the Strategic Defence Policy Statement 2018

Led by the Minister of Defence. This funding will, in line with the Strategic Defence Policy Statement 2018, promote retention and attract a skilled workforce that is necessary for maintaining the levels of readiness for military operations and other tasks as directed by the Government.

Ministry of Defence Operating Cost Pressures

Led by the Minister of Defence, this initiative aims to ensure that the Ministry of Defence can co-locate and share facilities and IT, security and other services with the New Zealand Defence Force.

Economic Development

Continuation of Government to Government Office

Led by the Minister for Economic Development. This initiative aims to allow the New Zealand Government to Government Office to continue to act as the international business development arm for government for a further three years. This will be done through providing funding to allow the office to continue its work to identify and realise new opportunities.

Holidays Act 2003 Compliance: Payroll System for the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment

Led by the Minister for Economic Development. This initiative aims to enable the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) to comply with its legislative requirements under the Holidays Act 2003, and to operate more economically, with increased resilience to disasters. This will be achieved through funding MBIE to replace its existing 20-year-old payroll system with a modern, cloud-based payroll system that is compliant with this legislation.

Major Events Business Leverage Programme: Rugby World Cup 2019

Led by the Minister for Economic Development. This initiative allows New Zealand Trade and Enterprise to manage and implement a programme to leverage the business opportunities generated from the Rugby World Cup, held in Japan in 2019.

Education

Addressing Regulated Wage Pressures in Early Learning

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative supports certain early learning services to meet their statutory obligations under the Minimum Wage Act 1983 without compromising their quality of education and care. This will provide additional equity funding for early learning services that predominantly serve children from lower socioeconomic communities.

Addressing Regulated Wage Pressures in Schools

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative supports schools to meet their statutory obligations under the Minimum Wage Act 1983 without compromising the quality of education and other services. This will be done by providing an additional payment to schools as part of their operational grant funding.

Pay Equity: Settlement and Programme Costs

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to ensure women receive the same pay as men for doing the same work and also for doing work that is different but of equal value. This will be done by assessing current claims, funding litigation costs, oversight and coordination of potential future pay-equity claims in the education sector. The funding also meets the pay-equity settlement costs for Ministry of Education-employed support workers.

Payroll Legislative and Compliance Projects

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to ensure that the schools payroll service is compliant with legislation, employment agreements, wider education policy and assurance requirements. It provides for addressing current and potential future schools’ payroll compliance requirements.

Schools Payroll Holidays Act 2003 Remediation Payments

Led by the Minister of Education. This initiative aims to ensure current and former school staff receive corrective payments where they have not been paid in accordance with the requirements of the Holidays Act 2003, as identified through a compliance analysis programme which is underway. Funding will be used for payments to staff who have been underpaid as a result of compliance issues discovered and analysed to date.

Ethnic Communities

Office of Ethnic Communities Uplift

Led by the Minister for Ethnic Communities. This initiative supports ethnically diverse and inter-faith communities to thrive and feel connected and included. This will be done by providing funding for approximately 15 additional Office of Ethnic Communities staff nationwide, most of whom will be frontline community engagement staff.

Finance

Non-Discretionary Cost Pressures Associated with Delivering the Treasury's Core Functions and a Wellbeing Approach

Led by the Minister of Finance. This initiative ensures that the Treasury has the capacity to effectively and sustainably deliver its core functions, support the Government's priority work programmes and develop and implement a wellbeing approach.

Foreign Affairs

APEC21 Programme: Enabling New Zealand to Fulfil its Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Hosting Responsibilities

Led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. This funding will enable New Zealand to fulfil its responsibility to host APEC in 2021. It funds the planning and delivery of operations and hosting elements of the APEC host year in 2021.

Government Communications Security Bureau

Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB): Additional Funding

Led by the Minister Responsible for the GCSB, this initiative will contribute to the protection of New Zealand’s national security, international relations and the wellbeing of New Zealand.

Government Digital Services

Improving Government Payroll Systems

Led by the Minister for Government Digital Services. This initiative aims to reduce the risks and costs of change to payroll systems across government and ensure payroll systems are future-proofed. This will be done by providing funding for the Government Chief Digital Officer to lead a programme of work across government to engage with suppliers and provide investment advice to government agencies.

Greater Christchurch Regeneration

Insurance Claims Resolution: Continuing to Help Resolve Homeowners' Insurance Claims Following Disasters

Led by the Minister for Greater Christchurch Regeneration. This initiative continues help for people whose homes have been affected by disasters, such as the Christchurch and Kaikōura earthquakes, to resolve their home insurance claims. This will be done by providing funding for: out-year funding for the Greater Christchurch Claims Resolution Service; insurance-related broker and advisory services to homeowners affected by disasters, natural or otherwise, to support their residential rebuild (currently branded as Residential Advisory Service (RAS)); the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s (MBIE) role to continue to provide a fully-funded mediation service for homeowners referred to mediation by the Canterbury Earthquakes Insurance Tribunal; and ensuring that MBIE is better positioned to respond to any future events through better alignment of insurance claim-related funds.

Health

Christchurch Terror Attacks: Initial Health Response

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative will support Canterbury District Health Board's initial response to the 15 March terror attacks. This will be done through providing funding to cover costs associated with initial health and wellbeing support provided following the terror attacks.

Disability Support Service: Maintaining Health Services for Disabled New Zealanders

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative will maintain services to people with long-term physical, intellectual and/or sensory impairment who require ongoing support. This will be done through providing funding for price and volume pressures in response to increased demand on Disability Support Services (DSS).

District Health Boards: Additional Support to Improve the Health of New Zealanders

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative improves, promotes and protects the health of New Zealanders by providing funding to maintain District Health Board (DHB) services such as hospital care, mental health support, primary health care and support for older people. This will be done through providing funding to meet additional costs driven by changes in the population, wage costs and inflation.

District Health Boards: Capital Investment

This initiative will help to maintain health services for New Zealanders by investing in health infrastructure, such as hospital buildings. This will include new facilities, and upgrades of current facilities based on priorities identified by business cases.

District Health Boards: Deficit Support

This initiative will help to maintain health services for New Zealanders by providing equity support to manage DHBs' deficits and to support their working capital position.

Enhancing the Ministry of Health's Capability to Support Government Priorities

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative enhances the Ministry of Health's capability to respond effectively and timely to future needs of the health sector, including building capability in DHB performance monitoring, improvement, and sustainability. This will be done by purchasing additional FTE and matching wage pressures for existing FTE to ensure the Ministry has the required capability.

Funding the Growth in In-Between Travel for Home and Community Support

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative aims to meet legal obligations under the Home and Community Support (Payment for Travel Between Clients) Settlement Act 2016. The will be done through providing funding for the additional costs for home and community support services, and the resulting in-between travel and guaranteed hours costs.

Health Workforce Collective Bargaining

Led by the Minister of Health. This funding is for health collective bargaining commitments which are negotiated between unions and DHBs, including the nurses pay settlement agreed in August 2018.

Health Workforce Training and Development to Benefit Rural and Regional Areas

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative increases the size of the health workforce, focusing on rural and regional areas. This will be done by supporting new health professionals into the health system by providing postgraduate training and support.

Improving the Financial Sustainability and Performance of District Health Boards

Led by the Minister of Health. This funding will be used for initiatives to improve the financial sustainability and performance of DHBs.

Improving the Financial Sustainability and Performance of Emergency Services

Led by the Minister of Health. This funding will be used for initiatives to improve the financial sustainability and performance of emergency services.

Increasing Access to and the Range of Affordable Pharmaceuticals

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative aims to give New Zealanders greater access to publicly funded pharmaceuticals. This will be done by increasing the Combined Pharmaceutical Budget to purchase more pharmaceuticals through PHARMAC.

Increasing Access to Gender Affirming Surgery

Led by the Associate Minister of Health. This initiative improves the health sector's capability in delivering transgender health care. This will be done through funding an increase in the number of gender affirming surgeries, responding to a 50-year waiting list for surgery and growing demand.

Infrastructure Support for District Health Boards' Capital Projects

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative will improve the effectiveness and efficiency of health capital expenditure. This will be done through enhancing the capability and capacity of the Ministry of Health to support DHBs’ capital investments, including the establishment of a health infrastructure unit.

Meeting Minimum Wage Obligations Under the Home and Community Support (Payment for Travel Between Clients) Settlement Act 2016

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative aims to meet obligations under the Home and Community Support (Payment for Travel Between Clients) Settlement Act 2016 to ensure care and support workers are fairly recompensed for the travel time involved in completing their roles. This will be done through providing funding to cover the increase in the minimum wage to $17.70.

National Bowel Screening Programme: Further Rollout of Programme

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative aims to reduce bowel cancer mortality, increase the proportion of bowel cancers detected at an early stage, reduce treatment costs and increase five-year relative survival rates for bowel cancer. This funding will enable the rollout of the National Bowel Screening Programme to a further four DHBs in 2019/20, and fund the associated costs relating the National Coordination Centre, laboratory testing, diagnostic and surveillance colonoscopies and bowel screening regional centres.

National Community Maternity Services: Maintaining Primary Maternity Services for New Zealanders to Support Healthy Pregnancies and Births

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative aims to support healthy pregnancies and births by ensuring that pregnant women can continue to receive access to free community maternity services. This will be done through providing funding for the estimated increased cost of primary maternity services driven by increased births, the number of women using primary community maternity services and increased service delivery costs.

Nursing Workforce Accord: Providing Additional Places for Nurse Entry to Practice

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative seeks to meet the Government's commitment to recruit and train sufficient DHB nurses to meet safe staffing levels. This funding contributes to meeting the ongoing costs of nurse employment and training along with funding from DHBs.

Planned Care, Including Elective Surgery: Increasing Number of Services for New Zealanders

Led by the Minister of Health. This funding will support DHBs to increase access to Planned Care. This will be done through providing funding for additional Planned Care interventions.

Planned Care, Including Elective Surgery: Maintaining Services for New Zealanders

Led by the Minister of Health. This funding aims to support DHBs to maintain Planned Care services for New Zealanders. This will be done through providing funding to meet new national pricing levels and match 2018/19 contracted volumes.

Primary Care: Maintaining Access to Primary Health Services for New Zealanders

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative aims to address inequitable access to primary care by retaining reduced patient co-payments for high-need populations. This will be done through providing funding for the estimated growth of people enrolled in a Primary Health Organisation, including increased growth in targeted primary care programmes that provide affordable access for low-income New Zealanders (for example, Zero Fees for Under 14s and the Very Low Cost Access scheme).

Supporting the Continued Delivery of Emergency Ambulance Services

Led by the Minister of Health. This initiative allows emergency ambulance services to continue to deliver timely emergency services to New Zealanders and improve outcomes for people suffering from medical emergencies. This will be done through providing funding for volume, wage and price-driven cost pressures for: emergency road ambulance, emergency air ambulance, ambulance communications/control, primary response in medical emergencies and other emergency services.

Housing and Urban Development

Ministry of Housing and Urban Development Capability: Baseline Funding

Led by the Minister of Housing and Urban Development. This initiative will support the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development's role in the Government’s ambitious housing and urban development programme for 2019/20.

Ministry of Housing and Urban Development: Initial Establishment

Led by the Minister of Housing and Urban Development. This initiative will provide capital funding to support the establishment of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, which began its operations on 1 October 2018.

New Tenancy Bond System: Designing a More Resilient and Customer Centric Bond System that Enables System Effectiveness and Future Flexibility

Led by the Minister for Housing and Urban Development. This initiative aims to complete the second phase of a project to replace the tenancy bond system. This will be done by providing funding for service design, requirements definition, a procurement process and development of a business case.

Immigration

Addressing Non-Compliant Behaviour in the Immigration System

Led by the Minister of Immigration. This initiative aims to better detect and punish unlawful behaviour and incentivise industry self-regulation, to increase immigration compliant behaviour by employers. This will be achieved through funding a targeted compliance strategy in priority sectors with additional resources for immigration intelligence, compliance and investigations, and educating and informing migrants and employers in these sectors of their entitlements and responsibilities.

Implementing the Electronic Travel Authority*

Led by the Minister of Immigration. The initiative aims to: enhance security and reduce immigration risks, address smuggling and biosecurity risks, improve traveller experience, support New Zealand’s international relationships and agreements, and adapt to the changing needs and requirements of the government, stakeholders and travellers over time. This will be done by implementing a new electronic form that collects information from most visa-waiver travellers (including cruise passengers) before travel and enables the collection of the International Visitor Levy from liable visitors. Electronic Travel Authorities will be current for two years.

Increasing the Refugee Quota

Led by the Minister of Immigration, the Minister for Housing and Urban Development and the Minister for Social Development. The initiative aims to support the increase in the annual refugee quota from 1,000 to 1,500 places, and to ensure successful refugee settlement outcomes. This will be done by providing specific services during the selection, reception and settlement of refugees in their new communities, and ensuring that suitable housing can be located for refugees without impacting other government priorities.

Maritime Mass Arrival Prevention: Enhancing New Zealand's Capability to Prevent People Smuggling Ventures Departing for New Zealand

Led by the Minister of Immigration. This initiative aims to enhance New Zealand's capability to prevent people smuggling ventures departing for New Zealand. This will be achieved through providing funding to expand New Zealand's offshore engagement, training additional staff, and strategic deterrence communication to deter people smuggling ventures in priority countries, as well as increasing domestic strategic coordination, intelligence and response capability.

Infrastructure

Crown Infrastructure Partners

In March 2018, Ministers agreed a $600 million equity injection to Crown Infrastructure Partners Limited to provide for investment in water and roading infrastructure to support the timely increase of housing supply. As part of Wellbeing Budget 2019, $300 million of this has been repurposed to progress related government priorities.

Improving New Zealand's Infrastructure Outcomes: A New Independent Infrastructure Body

Led by the Minister for Infrastructure. This initiative establishes a new Crown entity, the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission - Te Waihanga. This entity will provide advice to promote infrastructure that improves the wellbeing of all New Zealanders by: developing a broad consensus on long-term strategy; enabling coordination of infrastructure planning; and providing best-practice support to infrastructure initiatives to achieve better infrastructure outcomes.

Internal Affairs

Archives New Zealand and National Library of New Zealand: Meeting Core Statutory Responsibilities

Led by the Minister of Internal Affairs. This initiative maintains public access to and use of New Zealand's documentary heritage materials and public accountability of government. This will be done by: addressing cost pressures impacting the ability of Archives New Zealand and the National Library of New Zealand; retaining existing archives and library staff capacity; supporting larger programmes for the digitisation and preservation of materials; and reinstating public office monitoring and auditing to ensure compliance with the Public Records Act 2005.

Investing in the Department of Internal Affairs' Policy Advice Function in Order to Deliver Government Priorities

Led by the Minister of Internal Affairs, with the Ministers of Local Government, Racing, Ethnic Communities, Community and Voluntary Sector, Ministerial Services and Government Digital Services. This initiative will lift the Department of Internal Affairs’ policy capability and capacity to better meet the policy needs of the Government in areas such as citizenship, volunteering, classification, and gambling policy. This will be done through providing funding for approximately eight additional staff.

Maintaining an Independent Regulatory System for Classification

Led by the Minister of Internal Affairs. This initiative maintains public wellbeing and harm prevention by supporting our independent publications classification system. This will be done by providing additional funding to address cost pressures faced by the Office of Film and Literature Classification.

Preserving the Nation's Memory: Initial Work on New Physical Infrastructure for Archives New Zealand and the National Library of New Zealand

Led by the Minister of Internal Affairs. This initiative helps ensure New Zealand's archival and library materials are preserved and maintained in appropriate facilities. This will be done by providing funding for the design of a future upgrade and expansion of the physical facilities for Archives New Zealand and the National Library of New Zealand, and funding the archives management technology necessary to enable use of any new facilities.

Justice

Ensuring the Stable Delivery of New Zealand's Electoral System and Providing Enrolment Services on Election Day

Led by the Minister of Justice. This initiative maintains voter confidence in a secure, transparent and impartial electoral system, and delivers more accurate election results by providing accessible enrolment and voting services for all eligible and potential voters. This will be achieved by maintaining an electoral system that is efficient and effective, and by supporting the Electoral Commission to introduce a new service for election day enrolment.

Ensuring the Sustainability of the District Court by Appointing Additional District Court Judges

Led by the Minister of Justice and Minister for Courts, with the Ministers of Police and Corrections, the Minister for Children and the Attorney-General. This initiative aims to maintain public access to justice within the District Court. This will be achieved by providing funding to appoint more District Court Judges to manage the court’s increased workload. The funding will also cover the additional justice sector staff needed to ensure additional judges can operate effectively.

Free Community Legal Services: Continuing to Help Improve Access to Justice

Led by the Minister of Justice. This initiative aims to ensure we continue to provide access to justice for people on low incomes or facing other access to justice barriers. This will be achieved by providing funding for Community Law Centres to meet wage and other cost pressures.

Improving Base Pay of Ministry of Justice Employees

This initiative aims to improve the base pay of Ministry of Justice employees to enable the Ministry of Justice to maintain quality justice services. This will be done by introducing new pay bands and increasing wages across the Ministry of Justice.

Legal Aid: Continuing to Fund Legal Advice and Representation for People Who Need Legal Services

Led by the Minister of Justice, the legal aid scheme ensures access to legal assistance for people who have insufficient means. This will be achieved by providing payments to approved providers for people who meet the eligibility criteria for legal aid.

Maintaining the Capability of the Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security

Led by the Minister of Justice. This initiative aims to maintain public confidence in the Intelligence Agencies by providing effective monitoring, reviewing and reporting on the actions of the agencies to ensure they are acting lawfully. This will be achieved by enabling the Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security to maintain existing capability and ensuring ongoing funding for the existing number of staff. It will also give additional capacity to obtain specialist advice on the technologies used by the agencies and provide funding for the additional cost of new premises and equipment replacement.

Referendum on the Legalisation of Cannabis

Led by the Minister of Justice. This initiative aims to ensure successful delivery of a referendum on the legalisation of cannabis. The initiative will fund the Electoral Commission to engage and communicate with the public on participation in the referendum process.

Restoring the Human Rights Commission's Ability to Respond to Human Rights Issues

Led by the Minister of Justice. This initiative aims to support the Government's aspirations for a more inclusive society where all are valued and achieve their full potential by meeting the human rights obligations that underpin New Zealand's role in the global community. This will be achieved by improving Commissioner support and internal capabilities. Funding also provides additional resource to respond to increased demand for mediation and Office of Human Rights Proceedings services and significant inquiries.

New Zealand Security Intelligence Service

New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS): Additional Funding

Led by the Minister Responsible for the NZSIS, this initiative will contribute to the protection of New Zealand's national security, international relations and the wellbeing of New Zealand.

Official Development Assistance

Increasing New Zealand's Investment to Deliver on the Pacific Reset and to Demonstrate Global Leadership

Led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. This initiative will help address regional and global challenges. This will be done through providing funding for: playing a greater role in the Pacific, including addressing critical infrastructure needs; working with multilateral agencies in the Pacific and globally; increasing humanitarian assistance; and increasing support globally for effective governance, peace building and stability.

Police

Firearms Buy-Back Scheme

Led by the Minister of Police. This initiative is to support the prohibition of certain types of semiautomatic firearms, parts and magazines under the Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines and Parts) Amendment Act 2019. This will be achieved through a prohibited items buy-back scheme.

Firearms Buy-Back Scheme: Implementation

Led by the Minister of Police. This initiative is to enable the implementation of the buy-back scheme to support the Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines and Parts) Amendment Act 2019. This will be achieved by providing funding for collecting, recording and processing prohibited items and administering payments.

Next Generation Critical Communications (NGCC): Replacing Emergency Services Critical Communications Networks

Led by the Minister of Police, with Ministers of Finance, Infrastructure, and Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media. This initiative will support work on the Next Generation Critical Communications programme to provide Emergency Services (New Zealand Police, Fire and Emergency New Zealand, St John and Wellington Free Ambulance) with a replacement digital critical communications capability. This will be achieved through funding to begin procurement of a modern capability that is reliable, secure and meets operational needs.

Police Constabulary and Employee Bargaining

Led by the Minister of Police. This initiative provides funding to support the settlement of two collective agreements: the Police Constabulary collective agreement and the Police Employee collective agreement.

Radio Assurance: Ensure the Operation of Emergency Services' Critical Communications Radio Networks

Led by the Minister of Police, with Ministers of Finance, Infrastructure, and Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media. This initiative aims to ensure the Emergency Services' (New Zealand Police, Fire and Emergency New Zealand, St John and Wellington Free Ambulance) critical communications radio networks remain operational until the transition to the Next Generation Critical Communications (NGCC) capability. This will be achieved through replacing and reconditioning equipment at risk of failure, reducing capacity constraints and resolving critical network coverage issues.

Racing

Supporting the Reform of the New Zealand Racing Industry

Led by the Minister for Racing. This initiative assists in revitalising the New Zealand racing industry. This will be done by providing a contribution to the Racing Industry Transition Agency which will implement the Government’s decisions on the reform of the New Zealand racing industry, and by repealing the totalisator duty paid to the Government to allow the New Zealand Racing Board to distribute more funding to racing and sports codes.

Revenue

GST Treatment for Telecommunication Services: Aligning the Rules

Led by the Minister of Revenue and the Minister of Finance. This initiative will generally align the GST treatment for telecommunication services with current rules for taxing remote services. In particular, international roaming services for New Zealanders travelling overseas will be subject to GST.

Social Development

Benefits for Recent Migrants: Continuing Current Residency Requirements

Led by the Minister for Social Development. This initiative supports recent migrants to access financial support. This will be done by enabling the continuation for one year of the current two-year minimum residency period for accessing a main benefit, and no minimum residency period for partners of beneficiaries.

Community Service Providers: Supporting Social Service Delivery

Led by the Minister for Social Development. This initiative aims to support the sustainability of community service providers contracted by the Ministry of Social Development (MSD). This will be done through additional funding to reflect increasing business costs. The funding is intended to support the capability and capacity of community service providers pending a work programme led by the Social Wellbeing Board of a more coordinated approach to investing in the non-governmental organisation (NGO) social services sector.

Disabled People: Improving Wellbeing Through Strategic Support and Advocacy

Led by the Minister for Disability Issues. This initiative aims to improve the wellbeing of, and opportunities for, disabled people. This will be done by providing funding to increase the capacity of the Disabled People's Organisations coalition to more effectively engage with government in policy development and progress the New Zealand Disability Strategy and Disability Action Plan, and to increase the capacity and capability of MSD's Office for Disability Issues.

Ministry of Social Development: Increasing Case Management at the Front Line

Led by the Minister for Social Development. This initiative aims to improve the income and wellbeing of MSD clients by supporting those who are able into meaningful and sustainable employment and helping to ensure their living situation is safe and secure. This will be done by providing funding to employ 170 additional MSD staff (in 2019/20). This initiative will allow case managers to provide more regular support to clients, deliver more effective employment services and ensure other initiatives are able to be delivered.

Ministry of Social Development: Inflationary and Other Cost Pressures

Led by the Minister for Social Development. This initiative aims to maintain MSD's services by addressing inflationary and demand cost pressures. This will be done by providing funding for addressing lost economies of scale for MSD arising from the establishment of Oranga Tamariki and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, funding existing policy capacity and addressing inflationary pressures in technology and accommodation.

Ministry of Social Development: Remuneration Cost Pressures

Led by the Minister for Social Development. This initiative aims to maintain MSD's services. This will be done by providing funding for expected remuneration increases of current staff.

Ministry of Social Development: Safety and Security for Clients and Staff with Continued Security Guard Presence

Led by the Minister for Social Development. This initiative aims to enhance staff and visitor safety at MSD premises. This will be done by providing continued funding for security guards at 126 MSD service centres and eight administrative buildings. The presence of security guards is a critical layer of MSD's overall security system, as controlling access into premises can help reduce the risk of incidents that might cause harm to staff and visitors. The initiative will provide for gradually fewer guards, as site-based risk assessments are extended and other security enhancements are made at service centres.

Reducing Risk in Critical Systems and Implementing Legislative Change

Led by the Minister for Social Development. This initiative aims to maintain MSD's provision of services to over one million New Zealanders and make $24 billion in payments annually, by stabilising the computer systems at highest risk of serious failure. This will be done by providing funding to address the most urgent items of technology investment, including upgrades to software applications and hardware replacements, as well as replacement of selected obsolete systems.

Social Work Sector: Improving Professionalism Through Managing Mandatory Registration

Led by the Minister for Social Development. This initiative aims to protect the safety of those who are most vulnerable, especially children and the elderly, by enhancing the professionalism of social workers. This will be done through providing funding to increase the capacity of the Social Workers Registration Board, a Crown entity, so it can implement mandatory, rather than voluntary, registration for social workers, which is required by the 2019 amendments to the Social Workers Registration Act 2003. The funding will also enable the Social Workers Registration Board to collect data and provide reporting to support workforce planning and social worker education, and improve accrediting and standard-setting for social worker education, training and professional development.

Superannuation and Veteran's Pension: Modernising and Simplifying

Led by the Minister for Social Development. This initiative aims to simplify and modernise New Zealand Superannuation and the Veteran’s Pension, and make them more fiscally sustainable. This will be done by providing funding to implement system changes so that people’s entitlement is based primarily on their own circumstances rather than on their partner’s. There will be savings to the Crown from these changes, which will continue to increase in out-years.

Superannuation: Increasing Incomes for Weekly Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) Claimants at or Near Superannuation Qualification Age

Led by the Minister for Social Development. This initiative aims to raise the incomes of older workers who get injured. This will be done by providing funding for additional costs arising from legislative changes that will mean more people will receive superannuation. ACC claimants who first become entitled to weekly compensation for a personal injury while close to or above the superannuation qualification age will now be able to receive up to 24 months of weekly compensation, regardless of whether they also receive New Zealand Superannuation or the Veteran’s Pension.

Speaker of the House of Representatives

Parliamentary Service: Maintaining Capability and Capacity

This funding will enable the Service to meet a large variety of immediate contractual obligations including ensuring contractors are paid the living wage, covering annual fixed increases to the rent of Bowen House, remuneration pressures and addressing deferred maintenance.

Maintaining Core Services to the House of Representatives

Led by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. This initiative will address non-discretionary cost pressures resulting from market forces that could impact the ability of the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives to deliver core services. Cost pressures include personnel, price and volume elements. This will be done through providing funding for various operational pressures as indicated above.

Remediation of Executive Wing Exterior

This funding will enable the remediation of the exterior of the Parliament Executive Wing (Beehive). Remedial works include the replacement of concrete, asbestos removal and stopping the ingress of water which leads to interior damage.

Parliamentary Service: Replacement of Payroll System

This funding will remove the operational and business risks associated with a payroll solution that will become unsupported from the end of 2019.

State Services

Leading New Zealand's Public Services to Deliver Transparent, Transformational and Compassionate Government

Led by the Minister of State Services. This initiative will ensure the Commission has the capability and capacity to contribute to government priorities, the wellbeing domains and to perform its statutory functions. This will be done through providing the Commission with the resources necessary to meet its statutory functions and support activities that address government priorities.

Tourism

China New Zealand Year of Tourism 2019 Closing Ceremony and Accompanying Trade Delegation

Led by the Minister of Tourism. This initiative supports the Government to meet its commitments for the China New Zealand Year of Tourism activities in July–December 2019. It will fund a Year of Tourism closing ceremony, to be hosted by New Zealand in China, a Ministerial Trade Mission to China and promotion of New Zealand as a premium destination for the Chinese Free Independent Traveller.

New Zealand Wars and Conflicts Trail

Led by the Minister of Tourism. This initiative will support a feasibility study for a themed programme connecting major New Zealand Wars sites, located primarily throughout the North Island.

Treaty Negotiations

Relativity Mechanism Dispute Resolution

Led by the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations. This initiative will enable the Crown to participate in the resolution of disputes arising from the Relativity Mechanisms included in the historical Treaty settlements with Waikato-Tainui and Ngāi Tahu.

Workplace Relations and Safety

Tools and Resources to Support the Effective Implementation of the New Pay Equity Regime

Led by the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety. This initiative aims to support more enduring and robust pay equity settlements that address the historical undervaluation of work performed predominantly by women, due to sex-based discrimination. This will be achieved through funding guidance, tools and data for people making pay equity claims and for employers who consider those claims. These tools and resources will focus on improving the understanding of the pay equity regime, and people’s ability to make and consider claims.

Other

Other Tagged Contingencies

A number of initiatives agreed through Budget 2019 have been set aside in contingency, including funding for Dunedin Hospital. Often initiatives set aside in contingency are commercially sensitive or relate to negotiations that have yet to take place, such as wage negotiations. A general contingency is also provided for funding proposals that arise between Budgets.

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Arts, Culture and Heritage

Reprioritisation of Funding: Cultural Diplomacy International Programme

This initiative scales back funding for the Cultural Diplomacy International Programme, for reallocation to priority programmes of the Government, while leaving sufficient capacity to manage and deliver on programme outcomes.

Attorney-General

Reprioritisation of Funding: Expected Unspent Expenditure in 2018/19

The Parliamentary Counsel Office identified further savings from expected unspent expenditure in 2018/19. This funding is being reprioritised to other priority areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Reduction in Lease Costs

The Parliamentary Counsel Office's landlord has provided a discount worth 3-months' rent as compensation for having to leave its building at short notice. This funding is being reprioritised to other priority areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Reduction in Personnel Costs

The Parliamentary Counsel Office will look to fill two vacant positions in the second half of the 2018/19 financial year and the successful applicants are unlikely to start until near the end of that financial year. In the meantime, this funding is being reprioritised to other priority areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Building and Construction

Reprioritisation of Funding: Weathertight Services

This funding can be reprioritised to higher value spending with acceptable risk to meeting weathertight claims.

Children

Reprioritisation of Funding: Realignment of Low Priority Spend

A re-evaluation of current services has identified services that are no longer contributing to the Government's priorities. As such, this funding is being reprioritised to other priority areas that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Community and Voluntary Sector

Reprioritisation of Funding: Digital Literacy Grants

Funding for Digital Literacy Grants is no longer required owing to this funding having had a low outcome contribution towards the Government's priorities.

Conservation

Reprioritisation of Funding: Historic Property Maintenance

Historical property maintenance funding for the Department of Conservation is no longer required as historic properties were transferred to Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga through the historic properties review. This funding is therefore being reprioritised to other priority areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Reprioritisation of Funding: South Island Landless Natives Act 1906

Funding provided under the South Island Landless Natives Act 1906 is no longer required because committed obligations with iwi partners can be met within reduced funding levels. This funding is therefore being reprioritised to other priority areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Corrections

Reprioritisation of Funding: Targeted Suspension of Suboptimal Prison Capacity

Led by the Minister of Corrections. This saving will be achieved through targeted suspension of low-quality capacity. This capacity is being replaced by higher-quality units funded through the initiative Restoring a Safe and Effective Prison Network.

Customs

Reprioritisation of Funding: Finding Savings Through the Cost Recovery Review

Funding for cross-border goods charges has been reprioritised in order to best achieve the Government's priorities, pending Cabinet's approval of new fees.

Economic Development

Reprioritisation of Funding: Economic Development - Reduce the International Growth Fund

This funding is currently unallocated and can therefore be reprioritised to higher value spending.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Economic Development - Reduce the Management Development Fund

This funding is currently unallocated and can therefore be reprioritised to higher-value spending.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Economic Development - Return Uncommitted Funding for Implementation of Improvements in Public Sector Procurement and Services to Business

This funding is currently unallocated and can therefore be reprioritised to higher value spending.

Education

Reprioritisation of Funding: 2018/19 Underspends in Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) Administered Funding

This funding is no longer required for 2018/19 year owing to lower-than-budgeted payments for programmes administered by TEC outside of the Tertiary Tuition and Training Multi-Category Appropriation. This funding is being reprioritised to other areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Accounting Treatment of Recovery Exemption Expiration

A one-off saving in 2018/19 has been identified due to the end of the funding recovery exemption applied to Tertiary Education Institutions (TEIs) affected by the Canterbury earthquakes. This accounting adjustment has no impact on the funding allocated to these TEIs from 2019, and will be allocated to other areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Entrepreneurial Universities

The Tertiary Education Commission has not committed to further Entrepreneurial Universities funding rounds, and this reprioritisation initiative means there will be no further rounds. Unallocated funding for Entrepreneurial Universities is being reprioritised to other priority areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders. This will not impact on existing Entrepreneurial Universities contracts, but no new contracts will be entered into, and existing contracts will not be renewed once they expire.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Fees-Free Tertiary Education and Training

Some of the funding conservatively appropriated for Fees-Free Tertiary Education and Training is no longer required as initial estimates reflected maximum eligibility. This funding is therefore being reprioritised to other areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Graduate Schools

The ICT Graduate Schools programme will be discontinued from the end of the current contracts, which finish in 2020. Unallocated funding is being reprioritised to other areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders. This will not impact existing contracts, but no new contracts will be entered into, and existing contracts will not be renewed once they expire in 2020.

Reprioritisation of Funding: International Teacher Exchanges to Support Foreign Language Learning

As announced in September 2018, funding for International Teacher Exchanges to support foreign language learning is no longer required because the programme has been discontinued owing to low numbers of participating teachers and students. This funding is being reprioritised to other areas in the Budget that will improve the wellbeing of New Zealanders.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Investing in Educational Success, Forecast Underspend for 2018/19

This funding is no longer required owing to the return of a forecast underspend in Investing in Educational Success, primarily owing to Communities of Learning roles not yet appointed. This funding is being reprioritised to other areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Investing in Educational Success, Forecast Underspend for 2019/20 and 2020/21

This funding is no longer required owing to forecast underspends in Investing in Educational Success in 2019/20 and 2020/21, primarily because of Communities of Learning role expenditure. This funding is being reprioritised to other areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Reprioritisation of Funding: New Zealand International Doctoral Research Scholarships

No new scholarships have been awarded since 2017, and this scholarship will no longer be offered. This funding is being reprioritised to other areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Reprioritisation of Funding: School Property Maintenance for Vandalism

This funding is no longer required owing to underspends and a reduction in expected costs in the School Property Maintenance for Vandalism fund. This funding is being reprioritised to other areas in the Budget that will improve the wellbeing of New Zealanders.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Teacher-Led Innovation Fund

The Teacher-Led Innovation Fund (TLIF) is a component of Investing in Educational Success that provides funding for groups of teachers to develop innovative practices that improve learning outcomes. However, an evaluation of the first three funding rounds indicates that the educational benefits of TLIF are limited and applications for this fund have also been steadily reducing. The last round of funding will be in July 2019 and funding for future rounds is being reprioritised to other areas in the Budget that will improve the wellbeing of New Zealanders.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Tertiary Tuition and Training Multi-Category Appropriation 2018/19 Underspends

This funding is no longer required for 2018/19 year owing to 2018 calendar enrolments being lower than the level budgeted for. This unspent funding is being reprioritised to other areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Energy and Resources

Reprioritisation of Funding: Energy and Resources - Energy Efficiency and Conservation

This funding is no longer required because of low uptake for the voluntary National Australian Built Environment Rating System New Zealand programme, and can therefore be reprioritised to higher-value spending.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Energy and Resources - Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority Accumulated Surplus

This funding reflects an accumulated surplus of retained earnings that can be reprioritised to higher-value spending with minimal impact on the ability of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority to deliver its agreed outcomes.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Energy and Resources - International Energy Agency Contribution

This funding is not required because currency exchange rates are more favourable than planned for and it can therefore be reprioritised to higher-value spending.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Energy and Resources - Management of the Crown Mineral Estate

This funding can be reprioritised to higher-value spending with minimal impact on management of the Crown Mineral Estate.

Finance

Reprioritisation of Funding: Management of the Landcorp Protected Land Agreement

This initiative reduces the Management of the Landcorp Protected Land Agreement MCA by $3.342 million over the period 2018/19 to 2021/22, for reallocation to priority programmes of the Government. This will leave sufficient funding for the Crown to continue to meet its obligations under this contract.

Fisheries

Reprioritisation of Funding: Aquaculture Development Spending

Reducing the funding for discretionary contract funding for aquaculture development activities leaves sufficient funding to meet legislative requirements. The excess funding is being reprioritised to other priority areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Reprioritisation of Funding: International Organisations and Forums

Reducing the scale of attendance and involvement in international fishery management organisations and forums leaves sufficient funding to maintain credible participation. The excess funding is being reprioritised to other priority areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Foreign Affairs

Reprioritisation of Funding: Forecast Departmental Underspends for Management of New Zealand's International Development Cooperation

Funding for the appropriation Management of New Zealand's International Development Cooperation can be reduced as a result of achieving efficiencies over previous years. This funding will be used to fund government priorities.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Forecast Departmental Underspends for Consular Services, Policy Advice and Representation - International Institutions, Policy Advice and Representation - Other Countries

This funding can be reduced as a result of achieving efficiencies over previous years. It will be reallocated to fund other government priorities.

Housing and Urban Development

Reprioritisation of Funding: Housing and Tenancy Services

This funding can be reprioritised to higher-value spending with acceptable impacts to the Building and Construction portfolio.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Temporary Accommodation Operations

This funding can be reprioritised to higher-value spending with acceptable impacts to Temporary Accommodation Operations.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Temporary Accommodation Services

This funding can be reprioritised to higher-value spending with acceptable impacts to Tenancy Accommodation Services.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Finance - Social Housing Reform

Underspend of $3.6 million in the Direct Sale Costs of the Social Housing Reform Programme will be reallocated to priority programmes of the Government.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Housing and Urban Development: Housing Assistance

This funding is not required as there is no longer a need to provide an interest subsidy for the Kiwibank loan as this will be repaid in 2018/19.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Housing and Urban Development - Housing New Zealand Corporation Support Services

This funding is no longer required because Housing New Zealand Corporation has identified savings within its support services functions.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Housing and Urban Development - Management of Crown Properties Held Under the Housing Act 1955

This funding is no longer required because of the reduced number of properties being managed under the Housing Act 1955.

Immigration

Reprioritisation of Funding: Migrant Attraction Travel

This funding can be reprioritised to higher value spending with minimal impact on migrant attraction outcomes.

Infrastructure

Reprioritisation of Funding: Crown Infrastructure Partners - Equity Injection

This initiative repurposes $300 million of $600 million in funding previously intended for equity injection to Crown Infrastructure Partners Limited to progress related government priorities.

Internal Affairs

Reprioritisation of Funding: Anti-Money Laundering

Reducing funding for implementation of the Anti-Money Laundering requirements leaves sufficient funding to ensure effective implementation of requirements continues.

Land Information

Reprioritisation of Funding: Surplus Funding from the Land Information Portfolio

The Land Liabilities, Crown Forest Management, Depreciation, and Contaminated Sites appropriations have had year-on-year underspends. As a result, this funding is being reprioritised.

Māori Development

Reprioritisation of Funding: Electoral Participation

Funding for the ‘Electoral Participation' initiative is no longer required as the Electoral Commission will lead and fund this work in the future, with the support of Te Puni Kōkiri.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Moving the Māori Nation - Matika

Reducing the funding for the ‘Moving the Māori Nation - Matika' initiative leaves sufficient funding to maintain support for local programmes increasing whānau involvement in enjoyable physical activity.

Pacific Peoples

Reprioritisation of Funding: Registering Pacific Organisations as Community Housing Providers

Existing funding to support registering Pacific organisations as Community Housing Providers is no longer required because it has not been contributing to the Government's priorities. As such, this funding is being reprioritised to other priority areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Racing

Reprioritisation of Funding: Racing Safety Development Fund

Reducing the funding for the Racing Safety Development Fund leaves sufficient funding to maintain the safety of racecourses.

Revenue

Reprioritisation of Funding: Contingency Funding for Transformation

Reducing the contingency funding leaves sufficient funding to implement transformation.

Social Development

Reprioritisation of Funding: Discontinuing an Independent Policy Advice Appropriation

This initiative discontinues the ‘Independent Advice on Government Priority Areas' multi-category appropriation. This funding is being reprioritised to other priority areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Reprioritisation of Funding: Discontinuing Compulsory Work for You Seminars

This initiative discontinues compulsory Work for You seminars, which people are currently required to attend as part of their pre-benefit activities, as they are of questionable value to clients. This funding is being reprioritised to other priority areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Reprioritisation of Funding: One-Off Adjustment of Contracted Expenditure for Employment Services

This initiative makes a one-off adjustment of the contracted expenditure in the ‘Improving Employment Outcomes' category in the Ministry of Social Development's ‘Improving Employment and Social Outcomes Support' multi-category appropriation. This funding is being reprioritised to other priority areas in the Budget that will improve wellbeing for New Zealanders.

Tourism

Reprioritisation of Funding: Tourism Facilities Development Grants

This funding is currently unallocated and can therefore be reprioritised to higher-value spending.