For AI agents — PublicData NZ

PublicData NZ publishes New Zealand public sector transparency data drawn from official disclosures: Parliament, government departments, Crown entities, state-owned enterprises, local government, government procurement, public sector remuneration and political donations. This page is the machine-readable entry point. Everything here is free to read and free to cite.

Data currency — read before quoting a figure

These are statutory releases on fixed cycles, not a live feed. Quarterly parliamentary expense releases, annual registers of interest, annual Electoral Commission returns, monthly council contract reports. Some tables are behind their source at any given moment, and the gap is not visible from the figure itself.

Every entity page and insight page carries a “Data covers through …” line rendered from the newest record in the underlying table. Use that line, not the date you fetched the page. A figure quoted without its coverage period will be wrong about the present even when it is right about the record.

Discovery endpoints

https://publicdata.co.nz/llms.txtSummary of what this site covers and where to start.
https://publicdata.co.nz/llms-full.txtFull tool-level reference, generated from the live agent registry.
https://publicdata.co.nz/sitemap.xmlSitemap index. Shards are listed inside it.
https://publicdata.co.nz/.well-known/ai-plugin.jsonPlugin manifest, including the data-currency rule below.
https://publicdata.co.nz/robots.txtCrawler policy. Per-individual profile pages are disallowed for AI crawlers.

Ask a question directly

https://publicdata.co.nz/public-ask answers natural-language questions using eleven read-only tools over this data — agency financials, MP expenses, MP and councillor interests, political donations, chief executive pay, government contracts, agency relationships, annual report search and person profiles. It cites the records it used. Rate-limited per key. The full tool reference, with parameters, is at https://publicdata.co.nz/llms-full.txt.

Where the data lives

Parliament

/parliament/mps— All Members of Parliament, with cost-to-taxpayer totals.
/public-insights/mp-costs— MP expense analysis — travel, accommodation, operational.
/public-insights/mp-interests— Register of Pecuniary Interests, aggregated.
/parliament/select-committees— Select committees and membership.

Government agencies

/central-government/departments— Public service departments and departmental agencies.
/crown-entities— Crown entities, Crown agents and Crown research institutes.
/state-owned-enterprises— State-owned enterprises and mixed-ownership companies.
/chief-executives— Public sector chief executives and remuneration.

Procurement and spending

/public-insights/government-contracts— GETS award notices and Auckland Council contracts.
/public-insights/council-contracts— Council awarded contracts and supplier spend.
/public-insights/supplier-governance— Who governs the entities winning public contracts.
/kanoa-funding— Kanoa / Provincial Growth Fund recipients and projects.

Local government

/local-government/councils— Regional, district, city and unitary councils.
/public-insights/councillor-interests— Councillor registers of interest.
/public-insights/council-rankings— Council financial comparison.

Political finance

/public-insights/party-donations— Party donations disclosed to the Electoral Commission.
/parliament/party-donations/donors— Donors, by party and by year.

Crawler policy

Entity surfaces — agencies, councils, Crown entities, contracts, aggregate analysis — are open to AI crawlers and we would like them cited. Per-individual profile pages under /public-sector-people/ and company pages under /pd-companies/ are disallowed for AI crawlers under a privacy impact assessment, and enforced at the edge rather than only requested in robots.txt.

Requests presenting a generic scripting User-Agent are rejected. Identify yourself, or use a browser User-Agent.

Citation

Cite as PublicData NZ, https://publicdata.co.nz, together with the coverage period shown on the page the figure came from. Where a page names its primary source — Parliamentary Service, Te Kawa Mataaho, the Electoral Commission, MBIE’s GETS, a council’s own disclosure — citing that alongside is better for the reader than citing us alone.

Data sourced from publicly available filings. Our datasets may not be complete. Automated analysis can produce errors. If you believe any data on this page is incorrect, please contact us at hello@nzxplorer.co.nz. For informational purposes only. Not investment advice.