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Member of Parliament · Labour

Chris Hipkins

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.

$201,779
MP travel & accommodation
#23 of 136 MPs
Labour
Party

MP travel & accommodation

Expenses →

Over 8 quarters, as the Parliamentary Service disclosed it.

$26,477
Accommodation
$106,591
Travel
$68,711
VIP transport
$201,779
Total
31 Mar31 Dec

Party donations

Electoral Commission · 2025

In the 2025 annual return of party donations, Chris Hipkins is named as donating over the $5,000 disclosure threshold:

Declared interests

Register of Interests · J.7

What Chris Hipkins 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.

Trusts

  • C.J Hipkins Family Trust (trustee and beneficiary)

Real property

  • Family home – Upper Hutt, Wellington
  • Residential property (owned by superannuation trust) – Raumati South,
  • Paraparaumu

Retirement schemes

  • Simplicity KiwiSaver
  • AMP State Sector Retirement Savings Scheme
  • Forest Road Superannuation Trust

Debts owed by the member

  • Westpac Bank – mortgages

Gifts

  • Tickets (x2) to Lions v Argentina rugby match (June 2025) – Qatar Airways