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Hon David Seymour
Epsom
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@dbseymour
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Pecuniary interests
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Directorships
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Recent meetings
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Hon David Seymour is a New Zealand politician currently serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the ACT Party, representing the Epsom electorate in Parliament [30] [31] [38] . Seymour was educated at Auckland Grammar [17] and later…
AI-assembled biography sourced from Wikipedia, Hansard, Beehive and the Parliament register. Every claim is footnoted to a verbatim quote in one of the cited sources and tagged confirmed, unverified or disputed.
01 Positions
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Cabinet Minister — Regulation
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Deputy Prime Minister
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Associate Minister — Education, Finance, Health, Justice
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Party Leader — ACT New Zealand
03 Pecuniary interests (2025) Methodology →
as of 2026-05-27 02:24Beneficial interests in, and trusteeships of, trusts
BH & VA Seymour Family Trust (beneficiary)
— BH & VA Seymour Family Trust
(Beneficiary)
Beachcomber Trust (beneficiary)
— Beachcomber Trust
(Beneficiary)
Frere Trust (beneficiary)
— Frere Trust
(Beneficiary)
Debts owed by you
ASB Bank – mortgage
— ASB Bank
Debts owed to you
Frere Trust – loan
— Frere Trust
Gifts
All Blacks v Wallabies tickets (x2) – Eden Park Trust Board
— Eden Park Trust Board
Auckland Sail GP tickets (x2) – Sail GP
— Sail GP
Hot Laps – Super Sprint Motorsport Championships
— Super Sprint Motorsport Championships
One NZ Warriors v Tigers tickets (x2) – Waterstone
— Waterstone
Property Council Awards Dinner – Property Council
— Property Council
Overseas travel costs
Australia – Speech. Contributor to travel and accommodation: Campaign of Tim Wilson.
Australia – Speech. Contributor to travel: Campaign of Jonathan Huston.
Payment for activities
Speeches to Hugo Group (fee donated to Ranfurly Care)
— Hugo Group
Real property
Holiday home (as discretionary beneficiary of trust) – Northland
(Beneficiary)
Residential home (as beneficiary of trust) – Auckland
(Beneficiary)
Residential home (as discretionary beneficiary of trust) – Whangārei
(Beneficiary)
Section (as discretionary beneficiary of trust) – Whangārei
(Beneficiary)
Retirement schemes
ASB KiwiSaver
— ASB KiwiSaver
Oakura Superannuation Scheme
— Oakura Superannuation Scheme
04 Directorships Methodology →
as of 2026-05-27 02:24None recorded.
06 Trusteeships & beneficial trust interests
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activeBeneficiary
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activeBeneficiary
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activeBeneficiary
08 Recent meetings (as minister) Methodology →
as of 2026-05-27 02:43
2026-04-30
Thu
9 entries
EVENT: Radisson Red and AKA Roof Top joint grand opening
MEET: Select Committee
Guyon Espiner
MEDIA: Guyon Espiner
MEDIA: The Platform
Hi Pressure social media series
MEDIA: Hi Pressure social media series
MEET
Cabinet Committee
MEET: Cabinet Committee
Chris Lynch
MEDIA: Chris Lynch
Multi Ministers
MEET
2026-04-29
Wed
6 entries
MEET
Jamie Dally
MEDIA: Jamie Dally
EVENT: Top Scholar Awards reception
EVENT: Wellington Club
Cabinet Committee
MEET: Cabinet Committee
Multi Ministers
MEET
2026-04-28
Tue
5 entries
Cabinet Committee
MEET: Cabinet Committee
MEET: Cabinet
Multi Ministers
MEET
MEDIA: TVNZ Breakfast
MEDIA: RNZ First Up Panel
2026-04-27
Mon
1 entry
Stand up: Update on Fuel Resilience
MEDIA: Stand up: Update on Fuel Resilience
2026-04-25
Sat
1 entry
EVENT: Auckland Dawn Service
2026-04-24
Fri
3 entries
MEDIA: Newstalk ZB with Matt Heath and Tyler Adams
Multi Ministers
MEET
MEDIA: Pacific Mornings Network with William Territe
2026-04-23
Thu
10 entries
EVENT: ANZ
HDPA pre record
MEDIA: HDPA pre record
MEET: Select Committee
MEDIA: RNZ and ZB
MEET
MEET
Cabinet Committee
MEET: Cabinet Committee
MEET
Multi Ministers
MEET
MEDIA: Radio Waatea
2026-04-22
Wed
6 entries
EVENT: BusinessNZ
MEET
MEET
Cabinet Committee
MEET: Cabinet Committee
Multi Ministers
MEET
MEDIA: Herald NOW
2026-04-21
Tue
3 entries
Cabinet Committee
MEET: Cabinet Committee
Multi Ministers
MEET
MEDIA: RNZ First Up Panel
2026-04-20
Mon
6 entries
MEET: ACT Ministers/Parliamentary Under-Secretary meeting
with: ACT Ministers/Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministerial staff
MEET
MEET
MEET
Cabinet Committee
MEET: Cabinet Committee
MEDIA: The Country
09 Recent Hansard speeches
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10 Recent press releases
From Beehive.govt.nz. Most recent 10.
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2026-05-28Associate Education Minister David Seymour has today announced that financial relief for early childhood education (ECE) services will come in July 2026, instead of January 2027.
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2026-05-28The Government is making a major investment to back councils that support housing growth.
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2026-05-26This week the Government issued guidance to regulators on how to utilise Artificial Intelligence (AI) to raise productivity, Regulation Minister David Seymour says.
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2026-05-22Associate Education Minister David Seymour welcomes figures released today which show that charter schools are cheaper to open than the same sized state schools.
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2026-05-21Associate Health Minister David Seymour welcomes Pharmac’s proposal to strengthen New Zealand’s vaccine response, including by funding the flu vaccine for children aged 6 months up to 5 years old.
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2026-05-20Removal of regulatory barriers that make it harder for businesses and communities to cope with global fuel shocks has begun Minister for Regulation David Seymour and Minister for Transport Chris Bishop say.
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2026-05-20For the first time, the full scale and structure of New Zealand’s regulatory landscape has been mapped, exposing decades of overlap and complexity, Regulation Minister David Seymour says.
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2026-05-15Associate Education Minister David Seymour says students going on strike today would make a bigger difference by showing up to school, working hard, and taking every opportunity to learn.
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2026-05-15Associate Education Minister David Seymour has today announced that the Government will continue delivering a more efficient Healthy School Lunches Programme.
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2026-05-14Associate Health Minister David Seymour and Health Minister Simeon Brown welcome Pharmac’s proposal to change funding criteria for three type 2 diabetes medicines based on clinical need.
11 Recent ministerial speeches
From Beehive.govt.nz — conference keynotes and ministerial addresses (distinct from Hansard floor debates).
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2026-05-20I’m sure many of you will have noted the excellent speech in March by the Reserve Bank’s Chief Economist Paul Conway.
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2026-03-30I’d like to speak plainly to you about the event affecting every part of business right now. I’d like to cast it through another lens we try not to think about, let alone see the world through.
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2026-02-25Thank you to LGNZ for the opportunity, and thank you to the mayors, chairs, and councilors for putting your names forward to serve your communities.
12 In the news Methodology →
50 articlesCoverage from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff that mentions this person. Click any source to expand. Article body markdown is captured separately and used for AI summarisation downstream.
RNZ 16
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2026-06-01Explainer - A new bill would define gender in the law, and there's a month to make public submissions on it. Here's how.
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2026-05-31Budget Day is a Broadway production, with dance numbers (emphasis on numbers), undue laughter and applause, and everyone's a critic.
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2026-05-30From government sales pitch to opposition counter-branding, in the Budget Day debate, the performance matters nearly as much as the numbers.
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2026-05-29New Zealand's Minister for Pacific Peoples says the agency can still deliver despite losing around $64.2m in three years, but the opposition claims government "doesn't care" about Pasifika.
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2026-05-29David Seymour's party has doubled its election year donations tally in 20 days and surged past other parties.
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2026-05-28Sharon Zollner has questioned Treasury's forecast as the minister faces questions over her Budget.
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2026-05-28Budget 2026 is "an ivory tower budget" which ignores the young people and whānau struggling through the cost-of-living crisis, one advocate says.
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2026-05-28Sharon Zollner has questioned Treasury's forecast as the minister faces questions over her Budget.
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2026-05-28Labour leader Chris Hipkins says the government has failed to show it understands how tough it is out there for New Zealanders.
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2026-05-28The Finance Minister warns any party that ignores the size of the super problem is doing so for its own benefit.
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2026-05-28The total health spend is an increase of about 10 percent from last year.
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2026-05-27Explainer - It's Budget Day. Here's why it's important, and what will happen and when.
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2026-05-27David Seymour claims about 20 state schools have investigated the charter model and a conversion could happen at "almost any moment".
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2026-05-27The staffer received a document from Fonterra and Z Energy that made suggestions for a potential law change.
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2026-05-27The Government's agenda for this week is focused on Thursday's Budget, but the House has been distracted, including by a lack of lobbying transparency.
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2026-05-27Erica Stanford faced community backlash about new requirements on parents homeschooling their children.
The Spinoff 8
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2026-06-03Keeping all things nuclear out of New Zealand may or may not make moral sense. But it almost certainly makes economic sense. Chris Penk barely had time to shut his mouth before everyone started yelling at him. The defence minister made an…
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2026-05-31I grew up thinking I was a Kiwi. As a young person, I thought Kiwis were born in Aotearoa, grew up here, or made it home. I didn’t think there was any more to it – turns out I was wrong. The word Kiwi comes from te reo Māori, but Māori…
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2026-05-29A once-great Kiwi and enthusiast for Antichrist chat seems to be falling for a rival bolt-hole paradise, Argentina. What a day it must have been. In August 2011, tech billionaire Peter Thiel swore his allegiance to the queen, her heirs and…
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2026-05-28For all the anti-sugar talk, there were some granules deployed. The great coalition differentiation continued. And the volatile world kept rearing up. A tough few days out there for candy rabbits crouched in headwear. References to sugar…
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2026-05-28The post-budget debate had as many pop culture references as policy arguments. Joel MacManus was there for each of the seven speeches. Nicola Willis The finance minister is the star of budget day and gets the first speech in the…
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2026-05-28Finance minister Nicola Willis says she’s delivered ‘a responsible budget to secure New Zealand’s future’. But what do the experts think? Read Lyric Waiwiri-Smith’s report from the budget lockup here and Joel MacManus’s analysis here…
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2026-05-27We’ve all misplaced something at work. But if your office is a ministerial one, you might expect a bit more urgency in finding out where it went. You’d think the people preaching the loudest about getting their books in order would at…
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2026-05-27Since there will be no ‘backpocket boost’ in Budget 2026, National will need to explain how fiscal restraint will help voters in a perpetual cost of living crisis. Balancing the budget is a matter of national security. That’s the sales…
Stuff 8
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2026-05-31Brown’s approach to governing Auckland has endearing himself to some, but definitely not to others.
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2026-05-29The coalition government is about to clear its final hurdle of the term - and the race to election day starts now
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2026-05-28Budget 2026 is out, and for any Kiwis looking for cost of living relief - it probably isn't for you.
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2026-05-28Superannuation and debt have prevented a lolly scramble - and coalition partners prevented Willis’ solutions to them .
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2026-05-28Treasury is forecasting the economy will grow by an average of 2.7% over the next four years, and the Government's books will return to a surplus a year earlier than expected, in 2028/29.
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2026-05-28ANALYSIS: The coalition's election year Budget had been promoted as a "tough love" plan, delivering "the basics", while demanding belt-tightening across the state sector.
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2026-05-27Budget Day has arrived, meaning there’s just hours to go until we all know what’s inside.
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2026-05-27“I very seldom see a minister having to eat humble pie that fast,” Labour leader Chris Hipkins said.
1News 7
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2026-05-30The Finance Minister also defended the Government's fiscal record as the surplus target slipped three years from its original 2023 election promise.
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2026-05-30Latest list offers a glimpse into the perks, freebies, and diplomatic treasures New Zealand politicians accepted over the past year.
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2026-05-29Sharon Zollner has questioned Treasury's forecast as the Finance Minister faces questions over her Budget.
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2026-05-28The Government's goal of getting back to surplus was the key focus of this Budget.
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2026-05-28There are changes including for fringe benefit taxed vehicles, a new levy on banks and insurers, and an overhaul of charity donation rules.
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2026-05-27Of Finance Minister Nicola Willis' three Budgets so far, today's has arrived with the least fanfare. Here's what might be in store today.
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2026-05-27The Education Minister last week suddenly announced the introduction of new requirements on parents homeschooling their children.
NZ Herald 4
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2026-06-03Paula Bennett has been handed a 63.2% pay increase as Pharmac chairwoman. Photo / Mark Mitchell
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2026-06-02Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour have expressed hesitation regarding the possibility of committing further public money towards Moana Pasifika. Photo / Mark Mitchell
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2026-05-28Finance Minister Nicola Willis directed banks not to add costs on to customers. Photo / Mark Mitchell
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2026-05-27WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND - MAY 28: Finance Minister Nicola Willis with, from left, Shane Jones, Winston Peters, Chris Bishop and David Seymour on their way to the House for the reading of the Budget 2026, Parliament, Wellington, New Zealand…
Otago Daily Times 4
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2026-06-04A view of Frankton including Lake Hayes. Photo: Midori Takahashi A luxury Queenstown real estate agency’s querying why a top-end local residential enclave’s being treated as if it were productive farmland — undermining, as a result, the…
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2026-05-28If yesterday’s Budget seems to have passed you by, it’s no wonder. It does little or nothing for most people increasingly and desperately needing help.
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Newsroom 3
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2026-05-28Opinion: While coalition scrapping over Super may make headlines, the delivery of the Budget also puts the onus on Labour to unveil its own policies The post Scrappy election campaign looms over short-lived Budget unity appeared first on…
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2026-05-27Ahead of the Budget, the mining lobby says export targets depend on the skill of our future geologists – and you get what you pay for The post Mining industry to govt: Want critical minerals? Fund geology courses appeared first on Newsroom…
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2026-05-27The Education Minister says secondary schools will be a big Budget winner – but educators are wary of having to do too much with too little The post Secondary schools to take centre stage in education Budget appeared first on Newsroom .
13 OIA disclosures Methodology →
2 releasesStrict-mode Official Information Act responses from FYI.org.nz that name this MP. Tenure-checked: each row represents a request whose subject period overlapped a role this MP held. Click through to read the full release on FYI.
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2026-04-13From Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet · role at the time: deputy_pm · withheld under: 14(b)(ii) · 4 attachments
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2026-02-19From MFAT · role at the time: deputy_pm · partially successful · withheld under: 15A(1)(b) · 2 attachments
12.5 Heard on radio
Verbatim segments from podcasts and radio where this MP was the speaker, attributed via the manually-reviewed voice-reference library and pre-seeked to the moment the segment starts.
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Big Hairy News #BHN David Seymour on Q&A | Labour talks like a duck | Luxon still wants NZ to be Singapore 2026-05-25 · 47s
It's a huge sum. And you might you might ask the question, how does that fit into the debate about rural versus urban? Uh so it's possible that's the same. I'm just asking how they would pay it. Yeah. That's the question I would ask. Well, it's it's basically 70-5 cents an hour. So um, if you're earning 28 bucks an hour with some sort of median wage requirement, and we made that 2725, that's the seasonal workers. That's still a pretty good deal if you're coming from Salar, say for seven months. Uh, but it would also make a contribution to New Zealand's infrastructure. Very difficult to pay up front, though, for a lot of this. Yeah, and so like I say, I mean you work out we'll we'll release a full manifesto with that level of detail. But I think the basic idea that's you know, we can't keep widening our capital base by trying to accommodate more people, more roads, more hospitals, uh, if we don't have some way of paying for that.
13 Commentary topics Methodology →
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14 Press topics Methodology →
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