Parliamentary Party Funding

Here’s the budget for each parliamentary party from The Parliamentary Service. On top of this List MPs get two staff, electorate MPs get three staff, large electorate MPs get four staff and Ministers get on average 10 staff.

The funding is:

• Leadership funding of $100,000 per party and $64,430 per non Executive MP
• Party funding of $22,000 per MP
• MP funding of $85,500 per large (area over 12,500 square kms) electorate MP, $64,260 per normal electorate MP and $40,932 per List MP

There are seven parliamentary parties with 121 MPs. 28 are in the Executive and 93 are not. 12 are large electorate MPs, 59 are normal electorate MPs and 50 are list MPs.

The funding for each party is:

• National $7,189,168
• Labour $4,929,360
• Greens $1,881,528
• NZ First $1,449,772
• Maori $334,752
• ACT $186,260
• United Future $186,260

The formula has now changed so that MPs now get bulk funded for their staff and ICT costs. The overall level of spending should not have changed, but the new figures now include costs previously directly provided by The Parliamentary Service. The new directions are here.

The funding for each party is:

• National $17,416,111
• Labour $11,858,505
• Greens $3,925,458
• NZ First $3,105,717
• Maori $524,808
• ACT $333,474
• United Future $333,474