Hon GRANT ROBERTSON (Minister of Finance): The Government's ability to support businesses and households is backed by our actions to ensure a strong underlying economic base for the New Zealand economy and our strong fiscal position going into COVID-19. Standard & Poor's yesterday held New Zealand's credit rating at AA+ with a positive outlook because of the Government's low debt relative to the rest of the world and the economy's underlying strength. This has allowed the Government to go hard and early in our economic response to COVID-19 to match our health response. This has been led by the $10.7 billion wage subsidy scheme, supporting more than 1.7 million workers; the business finance guarantee scheme, the largest business tax support package in modern New Zealand history; and further measures announced last week to support small businesses with cash-flow operating costs.