Minister for Building and Construction (New Zealand)

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Minister for Building and Construction
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Incumbent
Chris Penk
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
PrecursorMinister of Building Issues; Minister for Building and Housing
Formation1 November 2004
First holder Margaret Wilson
Salary$288,900 [1]
Website www.beehive.govt.nz

The Minister for Building and Construction is a minister in the New Zealand Government with responsibility for the government's building, construction and housing programmes. The position was established in 2004 as the Minister for Building Issues.

Contents

The present Minister is Chris Penk, a member of the National Party. [2]

Responsibilities and powers

The minister's responsibilities include the regulation of the building and construction sector, including setting the performance requirements for buildings and building products. [3] The portfolio is administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

The primary legislation for the portfolio is the Building Act 2004, which sets out the rules for the construction, alteration, demolition and maintenance of new and existing buildings in New Zealand. [4] The minister also oversees the regulation of engineers, plumbers, gasfitters, drainlayers and architects.

History

In 2004, following its 2003 review of the housing sector amid the leaky homes crisis, the Fifth Labour Government announced plans to reconfigure government services related to building and housing. A new Department of Building and Housing was created by disestablishing the existing Ministry of Housing and transferring relevant functions from the Ministry of Economic Development, Department of Internal Affairs and Ministry of Social Development. [5] The new agency was to report to two Ministers: the Minister of Housing (an existing role) and the new Minister of Building Issues.

It had been suggested that John Tamihere, an Associate Minister of Commerce who had overseen the passage of the Building Act 2004, [6] would be named Building Minister; however, he resigned from Cabinet in October 2004 and Commerce Minister Margaret Wilson was named the inaugural Minister of Building Issues instead. [7] [8]

The portfolio was renamed Minister of Building and Construction in 2007. In 2014, it was amalgamated with the housing portfolio (as Minister of Building and Housing); this was reversed in 2016 with housing responsibility now sitting with the Minister for Social Housing.

List of ministers

Key

   National    Labour

No.NamePortraitTerm of officePrime Minister
As Minister of Building Issues
1 Margaret Wilson Margaret Wilson crop.jpg 1 November 200421 December 2004 Clark
2 Chris Carter Chris Carter, 2008.jpg 21 December 200419 October 2005
3 Clayton Cosgrove Clayton Cosgrove crop.jpg 19 November 20055 November 2007
As Minister for Building and Construction
4 Shane Jones Shane Jones.jpg 5 November 200719 November 2008 Clark
5 Maurice Williamson Maurice Williamson at the NZ Open Source Awards, 2007.jpg 19 November 20081 May 2014 Key
6 Nick Smith [nb 1] Nick Smith (cropped).jpg 1 May 201426 October 2017
English
7 Jenny Salesa Jenny Salesa, 2017.jpg 26 October 20176 November 2020 Ardern
8 Poto Williams Hon Poto Williams.jpg 6 November 202014 June 2022
9 Megan Woods Hon Dr Megan Woods.jpg 14 June 202227 November 2023
Hipkins
10 Chris Penk PENK, Chris - Kaipara ki Mahurangi (cropped).png 27 November 2023Incumbent Luxon

Table footnotes:

  1. ↑ as Minister for Building and Housing (8 October 2014 to 20 December 2016)

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References

  1. ↑ "Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances Determination 2016" (PDF). Parliament.nz. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "Ministerial List". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet . Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  3. ↑ "Building and Construction". Building and Construction. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  4. ↑ Employment, Ministry of Business, Innovation and. "Building Act 2004". Building Performance. Retrieved 2 February 2023.{{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ Steve Maharey (30 June 2004). "New Department of Building and Housing". Beehive.govt.nz. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  6. ↑ Simon Collins (24 August 2004). "Building problems 'ignored', says engineer" . Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  7. ↑ "Wilson takes over new Building and Housing department". GoodReturns.co.nz. 2 November 2004. Archived from the original on 22 April 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  8. ↑ Craig Spanhake (2006). Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament: 1996–2005. Dunedin, New Zealand: Tarkwode Press.
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