first, better and more accessible data. The readily useable migration approvals is published only once a year, with a lag even then of four or five months. The latest Migration Trends and Outlook was released in November 2016, covering the year to June 2016. It is inexcusably poor that we do not have this data readily, and easily useable, available monthly, within a few days of the end of the relevant month, and included (for example) as part of Statistics New Zealand’s Infoshare platform. The monthly PLT data are useful for some things, but if you want a good quality discussion and debate around immigration policy, make the immigration approvals data more easily available. As a comparison, building permits data is quickly and easily available, reported by SNZ. Why not migration approvals?