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Responsibilities include leading the policy and strategic direction for the immigration system, certifying immigration instructions which set the rules and criteria for the grant of visas and entry permission, and decision-making in regard to individual...

Responsibilities include oversight of the management of the Crown mineral estate, allocation and management of petroleum and mineral permits, management of relevant geoscience data, ensuring well-functioning and competitive energy markets, promoting...

Responsibilities include protecting and promoting the productivity, sustainability and export performance of New Zealand's agricultural sector.

Responsibilities include investment in transport infrastructure and services, regulation, and developing the transport system to maximise economic and social benefits while minimising harm.

Responsibilities include overall climate change policy direction, including the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme and targets for emissions reduction.

Responsibilities include setting expectations and priorities for SOEs.

Responsibilities include supporting and promoting tourism.

Responsibilities include early childhood education, primary and secondary schooling, and tertiary education.

Responsibilities include being the senior Law Officer of the Crown with principal responsibility for the government’s administration of the law, the principal legal adviser to the government, the principal plaintiff or defendant on behalf of the...

Responsiblities include the use and protection of the environment, including the management of risks.

Responsibilities include promoting conservation of the natural and historic heritage of New Zealand.

Responsibilities include the overall functioning and operation of the health system, community health, health workforce, aged care, and mental health services.

Responsibilities include coordinating and providing oversight in the area of child poverty reduction.

Responsibilities include reducing crime and victimisation, sentencing, parole, and bail policy, domestic and international criminal law, family law, youth justice, legal aid and access to justice, enforcement and protection of civil rights and interests...

Responsibilities include the overall working of New Zealand’s tax system.

Responsibilities include corporate law and governance, financial markets, competition policy, consumer policy, protecting intellectual property, and trade policy and international regulatory cooperation.

Responsibilities include ensuring the delivery of critical infrastructure for New Zealand, and for the New Zealand Infrastructure Plan.

Responsibilities include ensuring the Crown meets its Treaty settlement commitments, providing strategic leadership and advice on contemporary Treaty issues, ensuring the engagement of public sector agencies with Māori is meaningful, brokering solutions...

Responsibilities include leadership of executive government (including chairing Cabinet and overseeing the government's general policy direction), and being the principal adviser to the Sovereign and to the Sovereign's representative, the Governor-...

Responsibilities include oversight of the support services provided to Ministers and for official visits and national commemorative events.

Responsibilities include oversight of the treaty settlement process.

Responsibilities include the management of New Zealand's biosecurity system, border risk management, and domestic pest and pathway management.

Responsibilities include passports, citizenship, births, deaths and marriages, National Library and Archives New Zealand, regulation of gambling, censorship, fire services, and setting the policy direction for all-of-government ICT.

Responsibilities include advocating for the interests and issues of older people, overseeing the implementation of the Better Later Life - He Oranga Kaumātua 2018 to 2034 strategy, and advocating for policies that protect older people's rights and...

Responsibilities include management of emergencies created by geological or meteorological hazards or infrastructure failure, public education about civil defence emergency preparedness, risk identification, and planning to manage emergencies.

Responsibilities include driving and delivering the government's broadcasting and media policies.  This includes the diversity and accessibility of broadcast content, broadcasting standards, and the regulation of the print media.

Responsibilities include the management of New Zealand's fisheries (including aquaculture), providing for use while ensuring sustainability of those resources for the benefit of New Zealand as a whole, and responsibility for oceans policy.

Responsibilities include oversight of the national security and intelligence system and setting the overall policy for that system.

Responsibilities include oversight of the State services system, ensuring the work of the State services aligns with overall government priorities, machinery of government matters, integrity and conduct, leadership and capability development (...

Responsible for leading the whole-of-government approach to substantially prevent, reduce and address family and sexual violence, and for the joint venture on the prevention of family and sexual violence.

Responsibilities include the provision of mechanisms for the effective further development and implementation of the government build programme, and general responsibility for housing matters, tackling homelessness and the provision of public...

Responsibilities include supporting the system of local government and the central government and local government relationship, oversight of the Local Government Commission, acting as the territorial authority for the 11 islands that are not part of a...

Responsibilities include strengthening government policy to improve outcomes for iwi, hapū, and whānau Māori; strengthening the Crown’s relationships with iwi, hapū, and whānau Māori; and actively supporting the cultural, social, environmental, and...

Responsibilities include leading and promoting the effective use of data in understanding New Zealand, the provision of official statistics (including the Census of Population and Dwellings), and encouraging open government data.  This portfolio is...

Responsibilities include managing the government’s balance sheet, its economic and fiscal policy, the Budget process, representing New Zealand’s interests at international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary...

Responsibilities include improving outcomes for children and young people and leading the government's vulnerable children initiatives.