Hon MICHAEL WOOD: In making the decision that I made, along with Cabinet colleagues, I took into account a wide range of factors, including the fact that every single year, we receive advice and we receive views from that side of the House that an increased minimum wage might hurt economic activity or jobs growth. Actually, the record of this Government, every single year, is that we have increased the wages of working New Zealanders on the minimum wage at the same time as bringing about one of the lowest unemployment rates in the developed world.