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Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include leading and promoting the effective use of data in understanding New Zealand, the provision of official statistics (including the Census of Population and Dwellings), and encouraging open government data. This portfolio isEducation
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include early childhood education, and primary and secondary schooling.Oceans and Fisheries
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include the management of New Zealand's fisheries (including aquaculture), providing for use while ensuring sustainability of those resources for the benefit of New Zealand as a whole, and responsibility for oceans policy.Forestry
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include promoting the sustainable stewardship of the land in relation to forestry, and developing the role of forestry in the economy and culture of New Zealand. Also includes responsibility for forestry-related matters under theEconomic Development
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include economic development, enterprise policy and major events. The portfolio is also responsible for the Procurement Functional Leadership programme.Environment
Ministerial portfolioResponsiblities include the use and protection of the environment, including the management of risks.Police
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include oversight of the general conduct, functions, and duties of the Police, and the effective, efficient, and economical management of the Police.Internal Affairs
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include passports, citizenship, births, deaths and marriages, National Library and Archives New Zealand, regulation of gambling, censorship, fire services, and setting the policy direction for all-of-government ICT.Housing
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include the provision of mechanisms for the effective further development and implementation of the government build programme, and general responsibility for housing matters, tackling homelessness and the provision of public housiBiosecurity
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include the management of New Zealand's biosecurity system, border risk management, and domestic pest and pathway management.Ministerial Services
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include oversight of the support services provided to Ministers and for official visits and national commemorative events.Prime Minister
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include leadership of executive government (including chairing Cabinet and overseeing the government's general policy direction), and being the principal adviser to the Sovereign and to the Sovereign's representative, the Governor-GenerNational Security and Intelligence
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include oversight of the national security and intelligence system and setting the overall policy for that system, including responsibility for the National Security Strategy and for the overall direction of cyber security policy.Public Service
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include oversight of the State services system, ensuring the work of the State services aligns with overall government priorities, machinery of government matters, integrity and conduct, leadership and capability development (incluSocial Development and Employment
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include oversight of New Zealand's social welfare system, the implementation of the government's employment policies and programmes, including labour market modelling, analysis of labour market trends, NEET initiatives (Not in EmploymenPrevention of Family and Sexual Violence
Ministerial portfolioResponsible for leading the whole-of-government approach to substantially prevent, reduce and address family and sexual violence, and for the joint venture on the prevention of family and sexual violence.Infrastructure
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include improving the way that infrastructure is planned, funded, invested in, managed and built, with priority actions including developing a national infrastructure plan, establishing a new national infrastructure agency, developing nChild Poverty Reduction
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include coordinating and providing oversight in the area of child poverty reduction.Attorney-General
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include being the senior Law Officer of the Crown with principal responsibility for the government’s administration of the law, the principal legal adviser to the government, the principal plaintiff or defendant on behalf of the governmConservation
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include promoting conservation of the natural and historic heritage of New Zealand.State Owned Enterprises
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include setting expectations and priorities for SOEs.Rural Communities
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include ensuring that rural communities can thrive in the face of emerging challenges, providing a rural perspective in government decisions, and improving the resilience of rural communities (adverse events and mental wellness support)Climate Change
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include overall climate change policy direction, including the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme and targets for emissions reduction.Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include ensuring the Crown meets its Treaty settlement commitments, providing strategic leadership and advice on contemporary Treaty issues, ensuring the engagement of public sector agencies with Māori is meaningful, brokering solutionsBuilding and Construction
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include the regulation of the building and construction sector, including setting the performance requirements for buildings and building products, and the delivery of the Construction Skills Strategy.Children
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include improving outcomes for children and young people and leading the government's vulnerable children initiatives.Arts, Culture and Heritage
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include funding, heritage protection, and support for national arts organisations.Commerce and Consumer Affairs
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include corporate law and governance, financial markets, competition policy, consumer policy, protecting intellectual property, and trade policy and international regulatory cooperation.Foreign Affairs
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include promoting and protecting New Zealand’s interests abroad by prioritising, building, and leveraging international connections to benefit national security, economic prosperity, and international influence, and leading New Zealand'Corrections
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include oversight of the management of remand, community, and custodial sentences and orders, and policy to assist the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders.Māori Development
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include strengthening government policy to improve outcomes for iwi, hapū, and whānau Māori; strengthening the Crown’s relationships with iwi, hapū, and whānau Māori; and actively supporting the cultural, social, environmental, and econRacing
Ministerial portfolioResponsibilities include regulation of the racing industry and betting services.