Upston LouiseHon LOUISE UPSTON (National—Taupō): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. I'm pleased to stand and say that National will of course be supporting this piece of legislation. It was of course the work of the Hon Anne Tolley in the former Government. I'm somewhat surprised though given that this bill is a bit of a mechanical one in terms of wrapping up the changes to disestablish the Families Commission which was restructured into the social policy evaluation and research unit (SuPERU) in 2014 that this is actually so much of a priority of the new Government instead of actually things that they campaigned on in the election last year. But needless to say we are very keen that this is a piece of work that the Government wants to put forward.I want to emphasise one particular part because what this legislation actually does is part of the reconfiguration of agencies and resources that was designed to support social investment. We haven't heard too many occasions where the Government is picking up the social investment model but the fact that it has got this legislation up as so much of a priority I think actually gives a very strong message to the sector and the country that social investment is here to stay. So I am excited by that and in the spirit of cooperation I'm also very hopeful that Government members will also put serious consideration into working across the House for the proposed changes for the Child Poverty Reduction Bill one of which of course is to embed social investment in that legislation to ensure that we are lifting an even greater number of children out of poverty than we did in our term of office.I thought I would just touch on a few areas. I don't want to take too much time on this. It's clearly a tidy-up piece of legislation and as the Minister has said is about reconfiguring the agencies. The Families Commission was of course set up through the Families Commission Act in 2003 but that was then streamlined into the social policy evaluation and research unit or SuPERU for short. As I said before part of the reconfiguration of the agencies was aimed very directly at supporting social investment and we heard a description of social investment last week at the select committee that I thought I would put on record here: social investment is about making good choices on how best to support New Zealanders. That was of course the Chief Executive of the Ministry of Social Development and the Ministry of Social Development will of course be taking up some of the functions of the Families Commission which is being disbanded by this legislation. So social investment isn't a mystery; it's quite straightforward. It's about changing lives and I'm absolutely delighted that the Government has decided that this is an important part of the mix and is supporting legislation that changes the structures to better enable social investment because of course this side of the House is incredibly proud of what that provides and what it enables in changing the lives of New Zealanders particularly those who have needs greater than others.So I thought it was worth just having a bit more of a discussion about the social sector leadership that was discussed by the Cabinet that I was part of in the last Government and this was really taking steps to embed the social investment approach with the decisions to establish the social investment board and the Social Investment Agency. I have asked questions in this House around greater use of the social investment boards and for example the place-based initiatives where this is very much kind of at the grassroots and the forefront and I haven't actually had any answers about that yet. So I shall wait to see—and I am very hopeful again and optimistic that the Government is going to support that very important work on the ground.This is absolutely about making sure that we continue research and evidence-based work and some of the work that's already been undertaken the families and whānau status reports is going to the Ministry of Social Development. The Ministry of Justice will get the Family Violence Clearinghouse contract and then of course the Growing Up in New Zealand study which is key to New Zealand and our future is also important. So I'm very pleased to support this legislation which our previous Government did the bulk of the work on.