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Member of Parliament · National

Stuart Smith

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.

$203,259
MP travel & accommodation
#20 of 136 MPs
National
Party

MP travel & accommodation

Expenses →

Over 8 quarters, as the Parliamentary Service disclosed it.

$89,081
Accommodation
$114,178
Travel
$203,259
Total
31 Mar31 Dec

Declared interests

Register of Interests · J.7

What Stuart Smith 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

  • Contact Energy Limited (in trust) – electricity generation
  • Delegate Group Limited (in trust) – wine
  • EBOS Group Limited (in trust) – healthcare, medical, and pharmaceutical
  • products
  • Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Limited (in trust) – manufacturing
  • Freightways Group Limited (in trust) – transport operator
  • Genesis Energy Limited (in trust) – electricity generation
  • Heartland Group Holdings Limited (in trust) – financial services
  • Mainfreight Limited (in trust) – logistics
  • Meridian Energy Limited (in trust) – electricity generation
  • My Food Bag Group Limited (in trust) – online food delivery
  • Ryman Healthcare Limited (in trust) – retirement villages
  • Spark New Zealand Limited (in trust) – telecommunications
  • Amcor Public Listed Company Chess Depositary Interests (in trust) –
  • packaging
  • APA Group (Stapled) (in trust) – petroleum industry
  • Cleanaway Waste Management Limited (in trust) – sustainable waste
  • management
  • CSL Limited (in trust) – biotechnology
  • Macquarie Group Limited (in trust) – financial services
  • Resmed Incorporated Chess Depositary Interests (in trust) – medical
  • devices
  • Telix Pharmacuticals Limited (in trust) – biopharmaceutical company
  • Transurban Group (Stapled Securities) (in trust) – transport networks
  • Alibaba Group Holding Limited American Depositary Receipts (in trust) –
  • internet infrastructure, electronic commerce, online financial, and internet
  • content services
  • Amazon.com Incorporated (in trust) – e-commerce, cloud computing,
  • digital streaming, and artificial intelligence
  • Berkshire Hathaway Incorporated Class B (in trust) – insurance, rail
  • transportation, energy generation and distribution, manufacturing, and
  • retailing
  • Johnson and Johnson Incorporated (in trust) – pharmaceutical and
  • medical technologies
  • JP Morgan American Investment Trust plc (in trust) – investment company
  • Mastercard Incorporated Class A (in trust) – electronic payments
  • Microsoft Corporation (in trust) – software products, services, and devices
  • Nestlé Societe Anonyme American Depositary Receipts (in trust) – food
  • and drink processing
  • Novo Nordisk A Shares American Depositary Receipts (in trust) –
  • pharmaceutical products
  • Visa Incorporated Class A (in trust) – electronic payments
  • Zoetis Incorporated (in trust) – animal health
  • Hectre Group Limited (in trust) – orchard management software
  • Spacecube Limited (in trust) – modular building system
  • Script Sense (in trust) – pharmacy management software
  • Bristol Properties Limited Partnership (in trust) – property investment
  • Cashel Road Property Trust (in trust) – property investment
  • Nudgee Road Property Trust (in trust) – property investment
  • Osterly Way Investments Limited (in trust) – property investment
  • Dry Hills Services Limited (in trust) – irrigation scheme related to member's
  • family home
  • Merx (in trust) – property finance
  • Walmart Incorporated (in trust) – retail

Trusts

  • Tayler-Smith Family Trust (trustee and beneficiary)

Real property

  • Family home (owned by Tayler-Smith Family Trust) – Dry Hills, Blenheim
  • Apartment (owned by Tayler-Smith Family Trust) – Thorndon, Wellington
  • Timeshare week (owned by Tayler-Smith Family Trust) – Queenstown
  • Mews
  • Rental property (owned by Tayler-Smith Family Trust) – Redwood,
  • Blenheim
  • Apartment (half-share owned by Tayler-Smith Family Trust) – Frankton,
  • Queenstown

Retirement schemes

  • Fisher Funds KiwiSaver Plan

Managed investment schemes

  • Hamilton Lane Global Private Asset Fund NZD Hedge (in trust) – Hamilton
  • Lane Advisors, L.L.C.
  • LGT Multi-Alternatives Australia Fund (in trust) – LGT Capital Partners
  • Limited

Debts owed to the member

  • Tayler-Smith Family Trust – term loan*

Overseas travel

  • Taiwan – education and cultural. Contributor to travel and accommodation:
  • Government of Taiwan.

Gifts

  • Helicopter flight – South Marlborough Restoration Trust
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