Nicola Grigg | |
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.png) Grigg in 2023 | |
| 17thMinister for Women | |
| Assumed office 27 November 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Christopher Luxon |
| Preceded by | Jan Tinetti |
| Minister of State for Trade | |
| Assumed office 27 November 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Christopher Luxon |
| Preceded by | Rino Tirikatene |
| Member of theNew Zealand Parliament forSelwyn | |
| Assumed office 17 October 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Amy Adams |
| Majority | 19,782 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1979 or 1980 (age 45–46)[1] Mount Somers, New Zealand |
| Political party | National |
| Relations | Arthur Grigg (great-grandfather) Mary Grigg (great-grandmother)[2] John Cracroft Wilson (Third great-grandfather) |
| Residence | Prebbleton |
| Website | Official website |
Nicola Anna Grigg[3]MP is a New Zealand politician andMember of Parliament in theHouse of Representatives representing theSelwyn electorate since October 2020. Since 27 November 2023, she has served as the Minister of State for Trade,Minister for Women, and anAssociate Minister of Agriculture in theSixth National Government. She is a member of theNational Party.
Grigg was born and raised inMount Somers.[4] Two of her great-grandparents were Members of Parliament forMid-Canterbury between 1938 and 1943:Arthur Grigg andMary Grigg (who was the first woman MP for the National Party, completing Arthur's term after his death).[5][6] Grigg is also a third-great-granddaughter (through Mary Grigg) ofJohn Cracroft Wilson, a British-educated civil servant in India, farmer and politician in New Zealand andSir John Hall, an English-born New Zealand politician who served as the 12thpremier of New Zealand from 1879 to 1882.
Grigg worked as a journalist for bothNewstalk ZB andRadio New Zealand before shifting her career to politics. She worked forBill English both during his tenure as finance minister and prime minister. She later worked for leader of the oppositionSimon Bridges. She then left working at parliament and took up a position atNew Zealand Trade and Enterprise.[7]
| Years | Term | Electorate | List | Party | |
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| 2020–2023 | 53rd | Selwyn | 60 | National | |
| 2023–present | 54th | Selwyn | 19 | National | |
Grigg was selected as theNational Party candidate for theSelwyn electorate in November 2019 on the first ballot, ahead of two other nominees: Simon Flood and Craig Watson.[7]
In the2020 general election, she was elected to the Selwyn seat with a final majority of 4,968 votes.[8] Following the election, Grigg served as National's spokesperson for women and, from August 2021, trade and export growth.[9][10]
On 19 January 2023, Grigg was also given the responsibility for Spokesperson for Rural Communities, Animal Welfare, Biosecurity, Food Safety and Associate Spokesperson for Agriculture. However, she lost the trade and expert growth portfolio.[11]
At the2023 New Zealand general election, Grigg retained the Selwyn electorate, beating Labour's Luke Jones by a margin of 19,782[12]
On 27 November 2023, she was appointed by theGovernor-General,Dame Cindy Kiro atGovernment House to be the AssociateMinister of Agriculture, Minister of State for Trade, andMinister for Women in theNational-led coalition government.[13]
In late February 2025 Grigg, in her capacity as Minister of State for Trade and Investment, accompaniedPrime MinisterChristopher Luxon and a business delegation to Vietnam to promotebilateral economic and educational relations.[14]
Grigg previously dated former All Black captainRichie McCaw.[7]
In October 2023, Grigg revealed at a National Party press conference inRolleston that she was six-and-a-half months’ pregnant.[15] She and her partner Phil have a son. Grigg resides inPrebbleton in theSelwyn District.[16]
Grigg has supported the establishment of safe zones around abortion providers and hospitals. While voting for theContraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Act 2022 during its first reading in Parliament, Grigg argued that establishing abortion safe zones would reduce "harassment, hate speech, and intimidation" by anti-abortion protesters against vulnerable women.[9]
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