This Supplementary Order Paper amends the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Bill (the Bill) in the follow ways:

• it amends clause 8(2)(a) of the Bill to add “public health approaches” to the list of matters that board members should have knowledge, understanding, and experience of.

• it amends clause 11(1)(ca) to specify that the Commission’s function of making recommendations to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and adequacy of approaches to mental health and wellbeing, includes the function of recommending targets that provide clear and specific actions to be undertaken to improve people’s mental health and wellbeing. Clause 11(1)(c) is also amended to clarify that reporting against those targets is also a function of the Commission.

• it further amends Clause 11(1) to add an additional function of the Commission of promoting alignment and collaboration in research undertaken in respect of the effectiveness of approaches to mental health and wellbeing.

• it amends clause 11(3)(a) to require the Commission to have regard to research when performing its functions.

• it amends clause 11 to insert a new clause 11(3A), which requires the Commission to promote a social investment approach in carrying out its functions.