7. Question No. 7—HousingHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura) to the Minister of HousingQuestion No. 7—Housing7. Hon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura) to the Minister of Housing: As of 1 July 2019 how many KiwiBuild homes had received a code compliance certificate and how many KiwiBuild homes were contracted for delivery? Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Housing): As of 1 July 2019 87 KiwiBuild homes had their code compliance certificate from the local consenting authority and 1950 were contracted for delivery. Hon Judith Collins: Then why did the KiwiBuild website state that KiwiBuild had 220 homes completed" if in fact they didn't? Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: The reason is that 87 had received their code compliance certificate as of 1 July and 230 were counted as completed using the industry's standard definition of "practically completed"—that is the builder has told the developer that the property is complete. This is the industry's standard practice. Hon Judith Collins: Why has the Government continuously said that the programme has contracted 10000 houses including the Prime Minister as recently as Monday night on Q+A saying that KiwiBuild had "10000 contracted"? Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: I think the member is confused with the numbers. Let me go through them with her: 87 homes have received their code of compliance 230 houses are counted as completed under the definition I have just given her there have been 1950 houses contracted and there have been a further 8406 houses committed and contracted. That sums to 10356. The numbers are pretty simple. Hon Judith Collins: Is it correct that by 1 July this year actually only 70 KiwiBuild houses had code compliance certificates that "confirms the satisfactory completion" of a house and that only 1978 of the so-called 10000 KiwiBuild houses had an actual contract for delivery? Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: As per my answer to the primary the number of houses that had received their code of compliance certificate as of 1 July was 87. There was a written parliamentary question that was released to the member on 18 July where the number 70 was given to her. This is because as of 18 July that is the number of code of compliance certificates pertaining to the period she asked about as being received. In the days between 18 July and today some further code of compliance certificates that were issued by territorial local authorities to developers have been forwarded to the KiwiBuild unit bringing the number to 87 as I stated in my primary answer. Hon Judith Collins: Does she stand by her answers to written questions that 42—only 42—of the so-called completed houses were already under construction before KiwiBuild started meaning that there are only about another 42 that were started and finished by KiwiBuild compared to the target of 1000? Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: I think the member is confusing the code of compliance and completed figures. I am happy to confirm in writing the number that were started before KiwiBuild but as I explained to the member yesterday the Buying off the Plans and the deals that have been done have actually freed up an amount of capital that means that actually we have a number of properties coming to market in this way. But I do note in the 27 days since I have been the Minister of Housing the housing spokesperson for the Opposition has put several hundred questions to me. If she wants to put that one in writing I'll happily answer that one too. Hon Judith Collins: Does she stand by answers to written questions that the thousands of KiwiBuild houses claimed as committed in Mount Roskill Northcote and Māngere all had business cases signed off while the Hon Amy Adams was the Minister for housing? Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: No."