Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister of Education): Since 2018, the Government has committed $3.8 billion in new capital funding to improve school property up and down the country. That includes funding for the National Education Growth Plan to build new schools and classrooms to keep up with the growing population, the National School Redevelopment Programme to address the very poor conditions some school buildings were in when we inherited them, and the school investment programme, which provided funding to nearly every State school in New Zealand to bring forward and complete much-needed property projects. To provide a comparison, over $5.7 billion has been spent on upgrading and expanding school properties between 2018 and 2022, compared to $2.9 billion in the five years preceding that.