Member of Parliament · National
Carl Bates
Travel and accommodation, from the disclosures that name them. An MP’s travel is published by the Parliamentary Service; a minister’s travel is published separately by the Department of Internal Affairs. Both are shown here, and not added into a single headline, because they are two different bills.
$162,968
MP travel & accommodation
#52 of 136 MPs
National
Party
MP travel & accommodation
Expenses →Over 8 quarters, as the Parliamentary Service disclosed it.
$83,003
Accommodation
$79,962
Travel
$162,968
Total
Declared interests
Register of Interests · J.7What Carl Bates declared in the Register of Pecuniary and Other Specified Interests, as at 31 January 2026. The register records that an interest exists, not its value.
Company and business interests
- Greenplan (Dunmore West 2000) Forest Partnership No. 47 – forestry
Trusts
- The Carpe Diem Trust (beneficiary)
- Raewyn Bates Family Trust (beneficiary)
Real property
- Family home (jointly owned) – Whanganui
- Former family home (in trust) – Manawatū
- Rental property (in trust) – Whanganui
- Apartment (jointly owned) – Wellington
Retirement schemes
- Craigs KiwiSaver
- Ninety-One Retirement Annuity Fund – Ninety-One (South Africa)
Debts owed to the member
- Sirdar South Africa (Pty) Limited – business loan
- Protea Kowhai Holdings (Pty) Limited – business loan
Debts owed by the member
- Investec (South Africa) – mortgage on former family home
- The Carpe Diem Trust – personal loan
- Bank of New Zealand – mortgage on family home
- ASB – mortgage on apartment
Gifts
- Parliamentary Hunting Trip (one night and hinds) – New Zealand Game
- Animal Council