4. Question No. 4—Housing and Urban DevelopmentHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura) to the Minister of Housing and Urban DevelopmentQuestion No. 4—Housing and Urban Development4. Hon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura) to the Minister of Housing and Urban Development: How many of the 10356 KiwiBuild houses contracted and committed to build are in either the Mount Roskill Māngere Northcote or Porirua developments or at the old Wakatipu High School site in Queenstown?Hon PHIL TWYFORD (Minister of Housing and Urban Development): I'm advised that there are 3879 KiwiBuild homes currently forecast across those five sites. This figure will change as build dates are confirmed and contracts finalised.Hon Judith Collins: Does he stand by his answers to written questions that there was no specific date for when houses at Mount Roskill Māngere Northcote and Porirua were committed to by this Government?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: The answer was correct based on the advice I received. There were no specific dates but there were time frames within which those houses are committed.Hon Judith Collins: How can houses be contracted and committed to be built if there is no date on which the agreement was made?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: If I could just seek clarification in the member's question—the member is saying that there was no date on which the contract or the commitment was made?Hon Judith Collins: Shall I address that?SPEAKER: Yes say it again.Hon Judith Collins: Yes. Yes that's what it says in written questions. How can houses be contracted and committed to be built if there is no date on which the agreement was made as disclosed in written questions answered today?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: The houses that are contracted and committed include homes that are committed in the large-scale developments within a certain time frame and homes that are based on finalised contracts. It's based on completed and approved—Hon Gerry Brownlee: It's just being made up.Hon PHIL TWYFORD: —business cases.Brett Hudson: The Minister needs to be reset.SPEAKER: Order! The member will stand withdraw and apologise.Brett Hudson: I withdraw and apologise.SPEAKER: No I thought it was Mr Brownlee who made the—or was it Mr Hudson? All right. I'm missing them today!Hon Judith Collins: Which of the—Hon Gerry Brownlee: I've been named!SPEAKER: Order! Order! Yesterday you took the blame for Amy. Well I apologise to you and I'm sure Ms Adams will shout you something later.Hon Judith Collins: Which of the HLC developments—Mount Roskill Māngere Northcote and Porirua—were not already planned before KiwiBuild came into existence and included in his various briefings as incoming Minister?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Of those developments that the member has listed only the one in Northcote was started by the previous National Government and in that development there was no guaranteed commitment to build a certain number of affordable homes. In all of the others the business cases were completed and approved after the last election.Hon Judith Collins: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. My question was: which of those four developments were not already planned before the Government came into existence and also included in his briefings as incoming Minister?SPEAKER: I'll get the Minister to repeat his reply or to answer the question again. I'm sorry; he might have got it in there but I was momentarily distracted.Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Well I guess it depends what the member means when she says planned". There was a press release by the former Government that announced the intention to build some developments in those places but there were no approved business cases for any other developments other than the Northcote one and no commitment to a guaranteed number of new affordable homes.Hon Judith Collins: Is his ministry being truthful when it says that KiwiBuild has contracted and committed to build 10356 houses when there are no dated contracts for those?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Yes the ministry is being absolutely truthful. There are 10356 KiwiBuild houses either contracted through the Buying off the Plans scheme or committed in confirmed business cases over the next 10 years in a number of large-scale urban development projects.Hon Judith Collins: Can he guarantee that following the KiwiBuild reset the homes to be built at Mount Roskill will be marketed as KiwiBuild?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Well as myself and the Prime Minister have been saying all of the policy decisions involved in the reset will be announced when the reset is announced."