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Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs
Incumbent
David Clark
since 6 November 2020
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
StyleThe Honourable
Member of
Reports toPrime Minister of New Zealand
AppointerGovernor-General of New Zealand
Term lengthAt Her Majesty's pleasure
Formation24 August 1987
First holderDavid Butcher
Salary$288,900[1]
Websitewww.beehive.govt.nz

The Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs is a minister in the government of New Zealand with the responsibilities including corporate law and governance, financial markets, competition policy, consumer policy, protecting intellectual property, and trade policy and international regulatory cooperation, most of which is administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. The position was established as Minister of Commerce in 1987 and superseded the previous office of Minister of Trade and Industry.

Starting from October 2014, the position was combined with the now-disestablished Minister of Consumer Affairs.

The present Minister is David Clark.[2]

List of ministers

The following ministers held the office of Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.[3]

Key

  National   Labour

No. Name Portrait Term of Office Prime Minister
rowspan=3 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| 1 David Butcher 24 August 1987 2 November 1990 width=1 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| Lange
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| Palmer
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| Moore
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| 2 Philip Burdon 2 November 1990 1 March 1996 rowspan=2 height=15 style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| Bolger
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| 3 John Luxton 1 March 1996 31 August 1998
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| Shipley
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| 4 Max Bradford 31 August 1998 10 December 1999
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| 5 Paul Swain 10 December 1999 15 August 2002 rowspan=5 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| Clark
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| 6 Lianne Dalziel 15 August 2002 21 February 2004
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| 7 Margaret Wilson 21 February 2004 21 December 2004
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| 8 Pete Hodgson 21 December 2004 19 October 2005
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| (6) Lianne Dalziel 19 October 2005 19 November 2008
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| 9 Simon Power 19 November 2008 12 December 2011 rowspan=3 height=15 style="border-top:solid 0 gray; background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| Key
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| 10 Craig Foss File:Craig Foss.jpg 12 December 2011 8 October 2014
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| 11 Paul Goldsmith 8 October 2014 20 December 2016
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| English
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| 12 Jacqui Dean 20 December 2016 26 October 2017
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| 13 Kris Faafoi 26 October 2017 6 November 2020 rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| Ardern
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| 14 David Clark 6 November 2020 present

Notes

  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 6 November 2020.
  3. ^ Wilson 1985, pp. 89–97.

References

  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.