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Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control

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| salary = $288,900https://www.parliament.nz/media/3151/parliamentary-salaries-and-allowances-determination-2016.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}

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The Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control was a minister in the government of New Zealand.

History and responsibilities

The portfolio was established after the declaration of the New Zealand nuclear-free zone and passage of the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987 (the Act) on 8 June 1987. As of 2020, the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade believed that New Zealand was the only country to have a standalone disarmament portfolio. A briefing to the minister from that year stated that the purpose of the portfolio was to "provide leadership of New Zealand’s efforts to achieve progress on disarmament and non-proliferation, both in support of the global public good that these entail and as an important contribution to [New Zealand's] national interest."{{Cite report |url=https://www.mfat.govt.nz/assets/About-us-Corporate/MFAT-corporate-publications/Briefings-to-incoming-Ministers/Briefing-for-incoming-Minister-for-Disarmament-and-Arms-Control-2020.pdf |title=Briefing for incoming Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control 2020 |last=New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade |date=2020 |access-date=17 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204233440/https://www.mfat.govt.nz/assets/About-us-Corporate/MFAT-corporate-publications/Briefings-to-incoming-Ministers/Briefing-for-incoming-Minister-for-Disarmament-and-Arms-Control-2020.pdf |archive-date=4 February 2021}}

Under the Act, the Minister is the chair of the Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control. They led the New Zealand Government's engagement on the New Agenda Coalition and the Stockholm Initiative for Nuclear Disarmament.

The portfolio was disestablished in 2011 following the report of the Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control. Responsibilities of the minister were incorporated into the foreign affairs portfolio. A separate disarmament and arms control portfolio was re-established in 2018 but no further appointment was made after the 2023 general election.{{cite web |title=Ministerial portfolio changes |url=https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/ministerial-portfolio-changes |website=Beehive.govt.nz |publisher=New Zealand Government |access-date=12 January 2021}}

From 2023, in lieu of the separate ministerial portfolio, government functions related to disarmament and arms control were delegated to the Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs, Todd McClay.{{cite web |date=20 March 2024 |title=Delegations to Associate Ministers |url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/our-business-units/cabinet-office/ministers-and-their-portfolios/delegations |access-date=16 January 2025 |website=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC)}}

List of ministers

The following ministers have held the office of Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control.{{sfn|Wood|1996|p=}}

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! colspan="2" | No.

! Name

! Portrait

! colspan="2" | Term of office

! colspan="2" | Prime Minister

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! rowspan=2 | 1

| rowspan=2 | Russell Marshall

| rowspan=2 | 75px

| rowspan=2 | 8 June 1987

| rowspan=2 | 24 August 1989

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| Lange

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| rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|New Zealand Labour Party}}"|

| rowspan=2 | Palmer

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! rowspan=2 | 2

| rowspan=2 | Fran Wilde

| rowspan=2 | 75px

| rowspan=2 | 24 August 1989

| rowspan=2 | 2 November 1990

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| width=1 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|New Zealand Labour Party}}"|

| Moore

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! 3

| Doug Graham

| 75px

| 2 November 1990

| 16 December 1996

| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|New Zealand National Party}}"|

| rowspan="2" | Bolger

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! rowspan="2" | 4

| rowspan="2" | Don McKinnon

| rowspan="2" | 75px

| rowspan="2" | 16 December 1996

| rowspan="2" | 10 December 1999

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| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|New Zealand National Party}}"|

| Shipley

height=15 style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:{{party color|Alliance (New Zealand political party)}}"|

! 5

| Matt Robson

| 75px

| 10 December 1999

| 15 August 2002

| rowspan=3 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|New Zealand Labour Party}}"|

| rowspan=3|Clark

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! 6

| Marian Hobbs

| 75px

| 15 August 2002

| 12 October 2005

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! 7

| Phil Goff

| 75px

| 12 October 2005

| 19 November 2008

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! 8

| Georgina te Heuheu

| 75px

| 19 November 2008

| 14 December 2011

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| Key

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! 9

| Winston Peters

| 75px

| 2 May 2018

| 6 November 2020

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| rowspan=2|Ardern

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! rowspan=2|10

| rowspan=2|Phil Twyford

| rowspan=2|75px

| rowspan=2|6 November 2020

| rowspan=2|1 February 2023

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| rowspan=3 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|New Zealand Labour Party}}"|

| rowspan=3|Hipkins

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! 11

| Nanaia Mahuta

| 75px

| 1 February 2023

| 11 November 2023

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! 12

| Grant Robertson

| 75px

| 11 November 2023

| 27 November 2023

See also

Notes

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References

  • {{cite book |last=Wood |first=G. A. |title=Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament |edition=2 |orig-year=1987 |year=1996 |publisher=University of Otago Press |location=Dunedin |isbn=1-877133-00-0 }}

External links

  • [http://www.mfat.govt.nz/ New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade]

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