Minister for Sport and Recreation

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Minister for Sport and Recreation
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Incumbent
Mark Mitchell
since 24 January 2025
Sport New Zealand
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
Formation8 December 1972
First holder Joe Walding
Salary$288,900 [1]
Website www.beehive.govt.nz

The Minister for Sport and Recreation is a minister in the New Zealand Government appointed by the Prime Minister to be in charge of Sport New Zealand. The current Minister for Sport and Recreation is Mark Mitchell. [2]

Contents

List of ministers

The following ministers have held the office of Minister for Sport and Recreation. [3]

Key

   Labour    National

No.NamePortraitTerm of OfficePrime Minister
1 Joe Walding Joe Walding portrait.jpg 8 December 197212 December 1975 Kirk
Rowling
2 Allan Highet EP-NZ Obits-H-Highet Allan-tn.jpg 12 December 197526 July 1984 Muldoon
3 Mike Moore Mike Moore, 1992 (crop).jpg 26 July 198424 July 1987 Lange
4 Peter Tapsell Peter Tapsell (cropped).jpg 24 July 198710 July 1990
Palmer
5 Noel Scott No image.png 10 July 19902 November 1990
Moore
6 John Banks John Banks.jpg 2 November 199016 December 1996 Bolger
7 Murray McCully Murray McCully Estonia 2010 (cropped).jpg 16 December 199610 December 1999
Shipley
8 Trevor Mallard Trevor Mallard 2 (cropped).jpg 10 December 199931 October 2007 Clark
9 Clayton Cosgrove Clayton Cosgrove crop.jpg 31 October 200719 November 2008
(7) Murray McCully Murray McCully November 2016.jpg 19 November 20086 October 2014 Key
10 Jonathan Coleman Jonathan Coleman 3by2.png 6 October 201426 October 2017
English
11 Grant Robertson Hon Grant Robertson (cropped).jpg 26 October 201727 November 2023 Ardern
Hipkins
12 Chris Bishop Chris Bishop (cropped).png 27 November 202324 January 2025 Luxon
13 Mark Mitchell Mark Mitchell (cropped).png 24 January 2025present

Notes

  1. ↑ "Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances Determination 2016" (PDF). Parliament.nz. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  2. ↑ "Ministerial List". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (New Zealand) . Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  3. ↑ Wilson 1985, pp. 92–97.

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