Andrew Hoggard

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Andrew Hoggard
MP
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Hoggard in 2024
1st Minister for Biosecurity
Assumed office
27 November 2023
YearsTermElectorateListParty
2023 present 54th List 5 ACT

Hoggard became a member of ACT New Zealand in 2019. On 9 May 2023, one day after stepping down as president of Federated Farmers, he was named as the ACT candidate in the Rangitīkei electorate for the 2023 New Zealand general election. [15] Hoggard was subsequently ranked fifth on ACT's party list for the election. [16]

During the 2023 election, Hoggard came third place in the Rangitīkei electorate, which was won by National Party candidate Suze Redmayne. [17] He was however elected to Parliament on the ACT party list. [18]

Following the formation of the National-led coalition government, Hoggard became Minister for Biosecurity, Minister for Food Safety, and Associate Minister of Agriculture (Animal welfare, skills), and Associate Minister of the Environment in late November 2023. [19]

On 14 March 2024 Hoggard, as Associate Environment Minister, announced that the Government would suspend the obligation for councils to impose Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) under the previous Sixth Labour Government's National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity for three years, while the Resource Management Act 1991 is being replaced. Significant Natural Areas are places in New Zealand where rare or threatened plants or animals are found. Their protection was previously required under the Resource Management Act. [20] On 15 March he released a statement saying his 14 March comment had been misunderstood: "To be clear, there has been no change to statutory and regulatory obligations on councils at this point. If my statement has been read in a way that suggested that the change had already come into effect, this was not the intention". University of Otago law Professor Andrew Geddis said the statement was "misleading at best, and borderline unlawful at worst. No minister can by mere announcement remove an existing legal obligation imposed by a parliamentary enactment," he said. [21]

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