Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: The figures include poverty rates for the overall population, and show a significant reduction in material hardship. Three of the poverty measures related to material hardship declined from 2018/19 to 2019/20. The measures that the Government uses to judge itself on, for example, child poverty are relative measures, so when we do see increasing median incomes, this puts pressure on those indicators for poverty. While the figures overall in this report are encouraging, they do show that more work is required, particularly in the area of housing and to support our lowest income New Zealanders. The Government is committed to this work and to building on initiatives that we have already undertaken to support our most vulnerable, including raising main benefits by $25 per week, indexing main benefits to the growth in the average wage, lifting the minimum wage, and expanding schemes such as the Flexi-wage scheme.