4. Justice System—Government InitiativesMAUREEN PUGH (National) to the Minister of JusticeJustice System—Government Initiatives4. MAUREEN PUGH (National) to the Minister of Justice: How has the Government's justice agenda helped to hold offenders to account reduce the number of victims of crime reduce offending and ensuring our laws are fit for purpose?Hon AMY ADAMS (Minister of Justice): Our relentless focus on wanting New Zealanders to be safe in their homes at work and on the streets has seen us over this term of Government deliver initiatives like the introduction of public protection orders for high-risk criminals enhancing the powers of judges to send some of our most serious young offenders to the adult court improve protections for victims of crime through the victims code and better sharing of information in the justice system and expanding the use of alcohol and drug treatment courts rangatahi and specialist courts to address offending. Through these and other initiatives we have seen a decrease in total crime by 14 percent a reduction in youth crime by 31 percent and the number of offenders who go on to reoffend has dropped by 27 percent. Maureen Pugh: What initiatives has the Minister undertaken to address family violence?Hon AMY ADAMS: Better dealing with family violence is my top priority as justice Minister and this has seen a wide range of initiatives over the term including the launch and extension of the Integrated Safety Response pilot which has helped over 28000 vulnerable people to date; overhauling the legal framework through the Family and Whānau Violence Legislation Bill; rolling out the National Home Safety Service scheme across the country; better information sharing between police courts and victims to better support the safety of those at risk; and enabling police to video victim statements at the scene to reduce the trauma of court proceedings and improve the quality of evidence.Maureen Pugh: How has legislative reform supported the Minister's work programme over the past 3 years?Hon AMY ADAMS: A significant legislative reform programme has seen 56 pieces of justice legislation passed over the last 3 years including major reform in many areas. Some of these include passing the anti - money-laundering phase 2 legislation to strengthen and expand the existing anti - money-laundering regime; the Judicature Modernisation Bill which was one of the largest law-making exercises ever undertaken by this Parliament; the Returning Offenders (Management and Information) Act which allows agencies to appropriately deal with and reintegrate returning offenders; the Coroners Amendment Bill to improve the coronial system; and the Organised Crime and Anti-corruption Legislation Bill to strengthen New Zealand's response to organised crime at home and abroad. As well as this we have introduced the Trusts Bill the Courts Matters Bill the historic homosexual convictions legislation and of course the Family and Whānau Violence Legislation Bill which we are looking forward to seeing progress during the next term of Parliament.Andrew Little: What does she say to the 610 additional robbery victims in the year to June this year the additional 1286 assault victims and the additional 5720 victims of burglaries about her so-called successful strategies and just how many more Kiwis is she prepared to see robbed bashed and burgled before she and her Government take the issue of rising street crime seriously?Hon AMY ADAMS: What I would say is that this Government's social investment programme is targeted exactly to reduce that pipeline of offending. This Government's extreme focus through Police and other agencies on combating following up and arresting those who have committed assaults and burglary has led to more of them being held to account. And the policy announced by National which we will introduce if re-elected addresses exactly what that member is talking about which is the refusal to accept that we continue to allow that hard core of serious young offenders to terrorise their community. This is the party that is prepared to do something about it. This is the party that will not sit back and let the status quo continue.