Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs | |
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since 27 November 2023 | |
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment | |
Style | The Honourable |
Member of | |
Reports to | Prime Minister of New Zealand |
Appointer | Governor-General of New Zealand |
Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
Formation | 24 August 1987 |
First holder | David Butcher |
Salary | $288,900[1] |
Website | www.beehive.govt.nz |
The Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs is a minister in the New Zealand Government with the responsibilities including corporate law and governance, financial markets, competition policy, consumer policy, protecting intellectual property, and trade policy and international regulatory cooperation, most of which is administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. The position was established as Minister of Commerce in 1987 and superseded the previous office of Minister of Trade and Industry.
Starting from October 2014, the position was combined with the now-disestablished Minister of Consumer Affairs.
The present Minister is Andrew Bayly.[2]
List of ministers
The following ministers held the office of Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.[3]
- Key
No. | Name | Portrait | Term of Office | Prime Minister | |||
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As Minister of Commerce | |||||||
1 | David Butcher | 24 August 1987 | 2 November 1990 | Lange | |||
Palmer | |||||||
Moore | |||||||
2 | Philip Burdon | 2 November 1990 | 1 March 1996 | Bolger | |||
3 | John Luxton | 1 March 1996 | 31 August 1998 | ||||
Shipley | |||||||
4 | Max Bradford | 31 August 1998 | 10 December 1999 | ||||
5 | Paul Swain | 10 December 1999 | 15 August 2002 | Clark | |||
6 | Lianne Dalziel | 15 August 2002 | 21 February 2004 | ||||
7 | Margaret Wilson | 21 February 2004 | 21 December 2004 | ||||
8 | Pete Hodgson | 21 December 2004 | 19 October 2005 | ||||
(6) | Lianne Dalziel | 19 October 2005 | 19 November 2008 | ||||
9 | Simon Power | 19 November 2008 | 12 December 2011 | Key | |||
10 | Craig Foss | 12 December 2011 | 8 October 2014 | ||||
As Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs | |||||||
11 | Paul Goldsmith | 8 October 2014 | 20 December 2016 | Key | |||
English | |||||||
12 | Jacqui Dean | 20 December 2016 | 26 October 2017 | ||||
13 | Kris Faafoi | 26 October 2017 | 6 November 2020 | Ardern | |||
14 | David Clark | 6 November 2020 | 1 February 2023 | ||||
Hipkins | |||||||
15 | Duncan Webb | 1 February 2023 | 27 November 2023 | ||||
16 | Andrew Bayly | 27 November 2023 | present | Luxon |
Notes
- ^ "Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances Determination 2016" (PDF). Parliament.nz. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
- ^ "Ministerial List". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
- ^ Wilson 1985, pp. 89–97.
References
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.