Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control

Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control
Coat of arms of New Zealand
Flag of New Zealand
Incumbent Hon Phil Twyford since 6 November 2020
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Style	The Honourable
Member of	Cabinet of New Zealand Executive Council
Reports to	Prime Minister of New Zealand
Appointer	Governor-General of New Zealand
Term length	At Her Majesty's pleasure
Formation	8 June 1987
First holder	Russell Marshall
Salary	$288,900
Website	www.beehive.govt.nz

The Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control is a minister in the government of New Zealand.

The portfolio was established after the declaration of the New Zealand nuclear-free zone and passing of the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987 on 8 June 1987. It was disestablished in 2011 following the report of the Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control. In 2019 the portfolio was re-established in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shootings.

The present Minister is Phil Twyford, a member of the Labour Party.

List of Ministers

The following ministers have held the office of Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control.

Key

  Labour   National   Alliance   NZ First

No.		Name	Portrait	Term of Office		Prime Minister
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"|	1	Russell Marshall		8 June 1987	24 August 1989	width=1 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"|	Lange
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"|	2	Fran Wilde		24 August 1989	2 November 1990	style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"|	Palmer
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"|						Moore
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"|	3	Doug Graham		2 November 1990	16 December 1996	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"|	Bolger
height=15 style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"|	4	Don McKinnon		16 December 1996	10 December 1999
height=15 style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"|						style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"|	Shipley
height=15 style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:Template:Alliance (New Zealand political party)/meta/color"|	5	Matt Robson		10 December 1999	15 August 2002	rowspan=3 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"|	Clark
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"|	6	Marian Hobbs		15 August 2002	12 October 2005
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"|	7	Phil Goff		12 October 2005	19 November 2008
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"|	8	Georgina te Heuheu		19 November 2008	14 December 2011	style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"|	Key
office not in use
style="background:Template:New Zealand First/meta/color"|	9	Winston Peters		2 May 2019	6 November 2020	style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color" rowspan=2|	Ardern
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"|	10	Phil Twyford		6 November 2020	present

See also

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (New Zealand)
• Arms control
• Nuclear disarmament

References

• Wood, G. A. (1996) [1987]. Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament (2 ed.). Dunedin: University of Otago Press. ISBN 1 877133 00 0.

External links

• New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade