Gifts to MPs declared

Sports tickets, bottles of wine and perfume from countries with questionable human rights records. These are just some of the gifts MPs received and declared last year. The semi-regular pecuniary interest list reveals Jacinda Ardern received a Christmas gift basket from the Ambassador of Cuba. National’s Melissa Lee got bottles of wine and tea from the Chinese Embassy and Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta got a perfume box from the Qatar Government. All MPs except Christopher Luxon provided the Speaker with the required information. Trevor Mallard’s expressed his disappointment.