Section 2: Companies Office funding
MBIE can make the most impact by coordinating and sharing information within our organisation, across government and with industry and communities.
During 2025/26, MBIE advanced the Government’s priorities through economic growth initiatives, targeted investments, regulatory reform and responsible fiscal management.
During the year, MBIE invested in tourism, major events and infrastructure initiatives to support economic growth, improve productivity and strengthen resilience across New Zealand.
MBIE was one of the first New Zealand government agencies to face the challenges of COVID-19 given the presence of our offshore visa processing office in Beijing, which needed to be shut down back in January. Since then, we have played an integral leadership role in supporting the Government's ‘Response’ effort and the ‘Recovery’ and ‘Rebuild’ components.
In the future, New Zealand’s economy will have a different mix of sectors, jobs and skills. We will help communities to adapt and to benefit from the changes as we move to a knowledge-intensive, low-emissions economy.
Skilled and productive labour and safe workplaces are essential attributes of long-term economic growth. A strong economy also needs the right mix of skills and labour supply to respond to global and domestic opportunities and shifts.
The Digital Economy and and Communications portfolio was replaced by Media and Communications following the 2023 election.
New Zealand’s natural environment is important to our sense of identity and has great cultural and recreational significance. It also supports much economic activity. Some of our biggest contributors to export growth, such as tourism and the primary sector, rely heavily on using the natural environment.
The Minister for Energy is proactively releasing the titles of documents received from MBIE.
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