Hon CARMEL SEPULONI (Minister for Social Development and Employment): Kia ora, Mr Speaker. I'm pleased to report that progress has been made across our Government suite of employment initiatives, which is helping us to secure our economic recovery. The expansion of Flexi-wage to support more people into work has had a total of 2,469 placements since February. The Apprenticeship Boost scheme, which is rolled out in collaboration with the Tertiary Education Commission, has already benefited 26,902 apprentices. These are only two examples of the suite of Government initiatives that we've got in place to support more New Zealanders into employment, education, or training.