
MINISTRY OF
HEALTH
MANATU HAUORA
133 Molesworth Street
PO Box 5013
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
T +64 4 496 2000
01 July 2025
Andrew Riddell
By email: [email address]
Ref:
H2025067921
Tena koe Andrew
Response to your request for official information
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) to the Ministry of
Health - Manato Hauora (the Ministry) on 2 June 2025 for information regarding the Vote Health
estimates for 2025-2026. You requested:
''The Vote Health estimates for 2025-2026 includes the following statement on cost
pressure funding - "annual increases to address core demographic, volume and price
pressures for frontline health services" I am interested in the detail behind the makeup of
this annual increase.
Please provide the percentages used to address annual changes to core demographic,
price pressures and volume/population increase, all compared to the preceding year for
the following fiscal years:
- 2015-2016
- 2022-2023
- 2016-2017
- 2023-2024
- 2017-2018
- 2024-2025
- 2018-2019
- 2025-2026
- 2019-2020
- 2026-2027
- 2020-2021
- 2027-2028
- 2021-2022
- 2028-2029
The percentages should be the estimates used in preparing for that year's budget; and
show where applied percentages differ for operational and capital spending."
The information you have requested is attached to this letter as Appendix 1. The tables in
Appendix 1 present the estimated percentages for demographic, price, and other pressures
used in preparing Vote Health's cost pressure Budget bids since 2015-2016.
Please note that the information provided in Appendix 1 is the estimated percentages used to
derive the amounts of cost pressure funding requested through the Budget in each of the
respective years. This does not necessarily represent the final amounts agreed as cost pressure
funding through any of the Budget years, as these decisions were taken by Cabinet each year