The last Budget actually signalled the hidden agenda for how this Labour Government will deal with rural communities. In a terrible mistake last February, the Ministry of Health released to me an unredacted copy of a Budget briefing from Ashley Bloomfield to Andrew Little. In that unredacted briefing, one of the options to manage cost pressures was "rationalising specialist services—example: consider the scope and function of provincial hospitals." That is code for removing rural and provincial services. This is the hidden agenda of these reforms for rural areas—decentralised decision-making and reducing provincial hospitals—and this Government got caught out by their own mistake.