{"id":356534,"date":"2026-03-31T08:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356534\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:31:12","slug":"prime-minister-expected-to-announce-cabinet-reshuffle-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356534\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister expected to announce Cabinet reshuffle this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Prime<\/p>\n

\nPrime Minister Christopher Luxon. (File photo)
\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone\n<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is expected to announce a Cabinet reshuffle on Thursday.<\/p>\n

He would need to reallocate the portfolios held by Judith Collins, who was set to become president of the Law Commission<\/a> in the middle of the year.<\/p>\n

Collins was minister of Defence, the Public Service, the spy agencies, digitising government, and space – as well as the Attorney-General, the government’s top lawyer.<\/p>\n

Shane Reti was also retiring from politics at the election<\/a>, and Luxon may want to give the Universities, Science and Technology, Pacific Peoples and Statistics portfolios to someone else.<\/p>\n

Cabinet currently had 20 ministers, there were eight ministers outside Cabinet, and there were two Parliamentary undersecretaries.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. (File photo) Photo: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is expected to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-356534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}