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Minister · National

Erica Stanford

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.

$597
MP travel & accommodation
#127 of 136 MPs
$593,593
Ministerial travel
#6 of 32 ministers
National
Party

MP travel & accommodation

Expenses →

Over 8 quarters, as the Parliamentary Service disclosed it.

$0
Accommodation
$597
Travel
$597
Total
31 Mar31 Dec

Ministerial travel

Expenses →

Over 9 quarters, published by the Department of Internal Affairs. International travel is Cabinet-approved and can cover a spouse, staff and accompanying ministers.

$336,668
Domestic
$256,925
International
$593,593
Total
31 Mar31 Mar

Declared interests

Register of Interests · J.7

What Erica Stanford 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

  • Poppelbaum Family Trust (beneficiary)

Real property

  • Family home – Ōkura
  • Residential property/holiday home (owned by family trust) – Whangamatā
  • Investment property/rental (owned by Ōkura Superannuation Scheme) –
  • Christchurch

Retirement schemes

  • SuperLife KiwiSaver – Smartshares Limited
  • Ōkura Superannuation Scheme
  • * Interest rate payable in relation to the debt is less than the normal market
  • interest rate that applied at the time the debt was incurred or, if the terms of the
  • debt have been amended, at the time of the amendment.

Debts owed by the member

  • Bank of New Zealand – mortgage on family home
  • Ōkura Superannuation Scheme (ANZ) – mortgage on investment/rental
  • property

Gifts

  • Accommodation in Iceland while attending International Summit on the
  • Teaching Profession (ISTP) conference – Icelandic Government
  • ASB Classic corporate hospitality and tickets (x2) to the men’s tennis final
  • – Pernod Ricard
  • Accommodation in Sweden while attending the 2025 Knowledge Rich
  • Curriculum Forum – Swedish Enterprise School Forum
  • Sail GP Adrenaline Lounge tickets (x3) – Event organisers of Sail GP
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