Hon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment): The Government announced today that an exposure draft of key provisions of the natural and built environments (NBA) Act will be presented to a select committee in May. We expect the bill of the full NBA and the strategic planning Act, incorporating the outcomes of the select committee inquiry, will be put before Parliament by the end of 2021, to be passed by the end of 2022. For the second part of the question: yes, but it is no substitute for the action we're already taking, including building more houses—public and private—than have been built for decades, thousands more apprentices, more infrastructure, and directions to council under the Resource Management Act (RMA) to make room for growth up and out, as well as fast-tracked consenting. 