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Member of Parliament · National

Vanessa Weenink

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.

$130,132
MP travel & accommodation
#77 of 136 MPs
National
Party

MP travel & accommodation

Expenses →

Over 8 quarters, as the Parliamentary Service disclosed it.

$75,350
Accommodation
$54,784
Travel
$130,132
Total
31 Mar31 Dec

Party donations

Electoral Commission · 2025

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

Declared interests

Register of Interests · J.7

What Vanessa Weenink 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 directorships and controlling interests

  • Weenink Medical Limited – healthcare

Trusts

  • VJ Weenink Trust (trustee and beneficiary)
  • Pelorus River Trust (trustee and beneficiary)

Real property

  • Family home (jointly owned) – Christchurch
  • Family home (trust owned) – Christchurch
  • Apartment (trust owned) – Wellington

Retirement schemes

  • Private superannuation scheme – Pelorus River Trust
  • Medical Assurance Society KiwiSaver Scheme – Medical Funds
  • Management Limited

Managed investment schemes

  • Wealth Builder – NZ Funds

Debts owed by the member

  • Westpac Bank – mortgages (x2)

Overseas travel

  • Colombia – conference. Contributor to travel and accommodation:
  • European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Rights.

Payments for activities

  • Per diem payment for conference attendance and incidentals paid by
  • European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Rights.