Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control
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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 His Majesty's pleasure
Formation	8 June 1987
First holder	Russell Marshall
Salary	$288,900[1]
Website	www.beehive.govt.nz

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The Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control was 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 2018 the portfolio was re-established.^[2]

The Last Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control was Grant Robertson, a member of the Labour Party.^[3]

The following ministers have held the office of Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control.^[4]

Key

  Labour   National   Alliance   NZ First

No.		Name	Portrait	Term of office		Prime Minister
	1	Russell Marshall		8 June 1987	24 August 1989		Lange
							Palmer
	2	Fran Wilde		24 August 1989	2 November 1990
							Moore
	3	Doug Graham		2 November 1990	16 December 1996		Bolger
	4	Don McKinnon		16 December 1996	10 December 1999
							Shipley
	5	Matt Robson		10 December 1999	15 August 2002		Clark
	6	Marian Hobbs		15 August 2002	12 October 2005
	7	Phil Goff		12 October 2005	19 November 2008
	8	Georgina te Heuheu		19 November 2008	14 December 2011		Key
office not in use
	9	Winston Peters		2 May 2018	6 November 2020		Ardern
	10	Phil Twyford		6 November 2020	1 February 2023
							Hipkins
	11	Nanaia Mahuta		1 February 2023	11 November 2023
	12	Grant Robertson		11 November 2023	27 November 2023

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

• 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.

• New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade