In the 2011/12 financial year, NZ On Air funded RNZ Sound Archives $677,000. When the archive was transferred to Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision on 1 October 2012 an extra $300,000 per annum was allocated by the Government, bringing the Government's total annual investment in the sound collection close to $1 million. After the transfer, funding was delivered via the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. The archive told the Ministry that it proposed to spend $1.5 million annually on audio archiving.