Hon GRANT ROBERTSON (Minister of Finance): Statistics New Zealand recently released the food price index, which did report that food prices were up 6.4 percent on the previous month. In the face of these rising prices, the Government has intervened directly in order to make sure that we have greater competition in the supermarket sector, which will flow through to better outcomes at the checkout. Parliament last night passed legislation stopping major supermarkets from blocking their competitors' access to land to set up new stores. Along with this action, my colleague the Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs has noted that we will shortly be consulting on the mandatory code of conduct for supermarkets and already have a unit pricing scheme out for feedback, and we have already committed to making sure that we open up the wholesale market. The Government is acting directly to help bring the prices that New Zealanders pay at the supermarket down.