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What advice, if any, has the Minister of Transport received on the level of fuel excise duty or road user charges required to fund the Roads of National Significance programme on its original schedule? and 1 other question

Answered 31496, 31498 (2026)
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Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

Questions

  • 31496

    What advice, if any, has the Minister of Transport received on the level of fuel excise duty or road user charges required to fund the Roads of National Significance programme on its original schedule?

  • 31498

    What is the total estimated capital cost of all 17 Roads of National Significance listed in the 2024 Government Policy Statement on land transport, at the most recent estimate?

Answered by

Hon Chris Bishop

Member for Hutt South · National Party · Minister of Transport

Answer

As stated in my November 2025 speech to the Future Roads Conference, officials have advised that delivering the RoNS programme in full over the next 20 years would cost $56 billion. Funding this entirely from petrol tax and road user charges, would require a one-off 70% increase. Equivalent to a 49 cent per litre increase in petrol tax.