# Reporting on COVID-19 Specific Appropriations: 2019/20 to 2021/22 Prepared/created by: The Treasury Date published/issued: 13 June 2023 ## About this Data Release ### Description: This data release captures and reports on expenditure incurred in relation to new appropriations established as part of the Government’s response to COVID-19, up until 30 June 2022. It includes expenditure incurred on initiatives announced on 17 March 2020 and subsequent initiatives that have been funded through the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund (CRRF). Not all the initiatives introduced by the Government have resulted in the establishment of a new appropriation or require an appropriation. Some initiatives represented an extension of existing government activities and fell within existing appropriations. Expenditure incurred under existing appropriations is not captured in this data release. For example, some funding received by Vote Education (such as funding to support mental health and wellbeing and funding to expand Ka Ora Ka Ako Healthy School Lunches Programme) and some funding received by Vote Health (all non-immunisation related expenditure in 2019/20, as well as a portion of non-immunisation related expenditure in 2020/21 and 2021/22) was incurred against existing appropriations and is therefore not captured in the data release. Some initiatives introduced provided tax relief to taxpayers, which results in a reduction in tax revenue rather than an increase in expenditure to the Crown, therefore no appropriation is necessary. The amount of expenditure incurred may differ from the amount managed against the CRRF. For each initiative, the net expected fiscal cost (as estimated at the time the decision is made) on the Crown's net debt is managed against the CRRF. The amount appropriated represents the authority to incur expenditure (either operating or capital) rather than the net expected fiscal cost on the Crown's net debt. In some cases, the appropriated amount and net expected fiscal cost will be the same. For others these two figures will be different. An example of this is the Small Business Cashflow Scheme (where valuation losses from the loans require an appropriation but do not have a fiscal cost on the Crown's net debt and where repayments are also expected). Details of where non-financial Performance Information in respect of these appropriations will be or has been reported can be found in the relevant Estimates documents (please see below for links). This release includes a column to indicate when the appropriation was added to the data release (see the Data Dictionary). Published by: The Treasury Date data finalised: 1 June 2023 Published at: https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/data/reporting-covid-19-specific-appropriations Copyright: © Crown Copyright Rights (license for re-use): Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Rights explanation: This copyright work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. In essence, you are free to copy, distribute and adapt the work, as long as you attribute the work to the Crown (The Treasury) and abide by the other licence terms. Please note that no departmental or governmental emblem, logo or Coat of Arms may be used in any way which infringes any provision of the Flags, Emblems, and Names Protection Act 1981 or would infringe such provision if the relevant use occurred within New Zealand. Attribution to the Crown (The Treasury) should be in written form and not by reproduction of any such emblem, logo or Coat of Arms. Contact for feedback: The Treasury welcomes feedback and suggestions for improvement of this dataset. Email performance.info@treasury.govt.nz ### Related files: Three sheets in this MS Excel workbook reporting-covid-19-appropriations.xlsx have also been published in open NZGOAL-compliant formats: Introduction Notes - Markdown text format with modifications to refer to MS Excel file: reporting-covid-19-appropriations-intro-notes.txt Data Dictionary sheet - CSV format: reporting-covid-19-appropriations-data-dictionary.csv Raw Data sheet - CSV format: reporting-covid-19-appropriations-data.csv The Pivot sheets in this MS Excel workbook are not available in alternate formats. ### Related files use the UTF-8 character set for Te Reo Māori support: Software and tools supporting Unicode (UTF-8) characters must be used to open or access these files to ensure that some characters (eg, macrons in Te Reo Māori words and – long dashes) display correctly. For example, ensure 65001 : Unicode (UTF-8) is selected as the file origin format when importing data from the CSV files into MS Excel. ## URLs of Pages and Documents Mentioned in the Introduction Notes and Data Dictionary ### COVID-19 funding allocation and expenditure Overview page on the Treasury website, includes links to this data release and to the Summary of Initiatives (SOI) documents. https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/budgets/covid-19-funding-allocation-expenditure ### Summary of Initiatives in the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund (CRRF) Foundational Package Published 29 May 2020. https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/summary-intiatives/summary-initiatives-crrf-budget2020 ### Summary of Initiatives in the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund (CRRF) July Package Published 6 July 2020. https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/summary-intiatives/summary-initiatives-crrf-july-package ### The Estimates of Appropriations for the Government of New Zealand for the Year Ending 30 June 2023 Referred to in short form as: Estimates of Appropriations 22/23. Published 19 May 2022 https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/budgets/estimates-appropriations-government-new-zealand-year-ending-30-june-2023 ### Supplementary Estimates of Appropriations for the Government of New Zealand for the Year Ending 30 June 2022 Referred to in short form as: Supplementary Estimates 21/22. Published 19 May 2022 https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/budgets/supplementary-estimates-appropriations-government-new-zealand-year-ending-30-june-2022 ### Supplementary Estimates of Appropriations for the Government of New Zealand for the Year Ending 30 June 2021 Referred to in short form as: Supplementary Estimates 20/21. Published 20 May 2021 https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/budgets/supplementary-estimates-appropriations-government-new-zealand-year-ending-30-june-2021 ### Supplementary Estimates of Appropriations for the Government of New Zealand for the Year Ending 30 June 2020 Referred to in short form as: Supplementary Estimates 19/20. Published 14 May 2020. https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/budgets/supplementary-estimates-appropriations-government-new-zealand-year-ending-30-june-2020 ### Addition to the Supplementary Estimates of Appropriations for the Government of New Zealand for the Year Ending 30 June 2020 Referred to in short form as: Addition to the Supplementary Estimates 19/20. Published 16 June 2020. https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/budgets/addition-supplementary-estimates-appropriations-government-new-zealand-year-ending-30-june-2020 ### Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ### NZGOAL (New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing) framework https://www.data.govt.nz/manage-data/policies/nzgoal/