Dear John --
Great progress this afternoon on cancer drugs with Pharmac kicking off the process to approve two of the new cancer treatments being delivered thanks to our $604 million investment.
We announced our cancer drug plan just last week and action is already being taken to widen access to life-changing cancer treatments for Kiwis.
On Monday, I shared our latest quarterly Action Plan, containing 40 actions we’ll take in the next three months to keep rebuilding the economy, restoring law and order and improving our public services.
The Q3 Action Plan is particularly focused on cracking down on criminal activity and making you and your community safer.
Before the end of the quarter, we will have passed laws to give Police tough powers to go after gangs by restricting their ability to associate and banning gang patches in public.
We’ll have also passed laws to give Police more power to get guns out of the hands of criminals, increase access to rehabilitation for prisoners on remand and improve efficiency in our court system so it’s easier for victims to get justice.
This week, we’ve also shared more of our plans to improve the things Kiwis care most about.
In housing, we’re taking action to make houses more affordable by requiring councils to zone for at least 30 years of housing demand at any one time and scrapping rules standing in the way of increasing the supply of affordable homes.
In education, parents can look forward to having a clearer picture of their kids’ achievement thanks to the consistent assessment tools we’re bringing in from next year.
In mental health, we’ve set clear and ambitious targets to deliver better services faster and we’ve set up a new Mental Health Innovation Fund to scale up successful community providers of mental health services so they can reach more Kiwis.
And in transport, we’ve confirmed the next seven Roads of National Significance are expected to begin procurement, enabling works and construction in the next three years. That’s good news for anyone who’ll be using Belfast to Pegasus (including the Woodend Bypass), the Hawke’s Bay Expressway, SH1 Cambridge to Piarere, SH29 Tauriko, Takitimu North Link Stage 2, Mill Road, or Warkworth to Wellsford.
Getting houses and infrastructure built is part of our plan to rebuild the economy and it’s only through a strong economy that we can invest in the world-class health and education New Zealanders deserve.
Thank you,
Christopher
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NZ National Party - 41 Pipitea St, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
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