Hon GRANT ROBERTSON (Minister of Finance): I am advised that it is not possible to quantify the direct cost to the Crown of the change in alert levels at this time as that relies on many variables, including the length of time that alert levels rise for and the impact on tax revenue and how much of that is temporary or permanent. However, what I can say is how much money the Crown has spent on schemes since 18 August up to today. In the case of the wage subsidy scheme, it has paid out $876.3 million, supporting 205,509 businesses and protecting 781,364 jobs, including 98,339 self-employed people. As of the beginning of today, the resurgence support payment has paid out $378 million, covering 122,231 applications. In addition to that, around a million dollars has been spent supporting the leave support scheme and short-term absence payment obligations. I would note at this stage that that figure, which adds up to around about $1.25 billion, is tracking a bit behind the estimate of around $2 billion of cost per fortnight for these schemes when we are at alert level 4. In answer to the second part of the question, there is still sufficient room in the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund (CRRF) to support our ongoing response to the Delta variant. As I told the Finance and Expenditure Committee last week, there was a little over $5 billion unallocated in the CRRF at Budget 2021. There is also additional funding of just over $1 billion allocated for business support that had not been spent and can now be spent, and I am now advised, to update from what I said at the Finance and Expenditure Committee, that there is approximately an additional $3 billion of unspent funding in other allocations in the CRRF that is available to be spent. In closing, I'd also note that the CRRF is not the only funding source to help deal with our ongoing response. Agencies are also looking to use their existing baselines, and, in addition to that, if there is a need to top up the CRRF, we can do that without going above forecast net debt figures due to the exceptional performance of the New Zealand economy, providing significant fiscal headroom to do so.