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I want to pick up the point that you made about the chancellor’s wriggle room in terms of any policy choices that he might make. The OBR’s latest forecast, which is from March, suggested that the chancellor was on course to meet his borrowing target with some room to spare.
For example, iPlayer has grown 20 per cent year on year with young audiences in the UK, BBC Sounds now reaches 2.6 million adults across the UK and, for news online, young figures have gone up 26 per cent year on year.
Data from the Scottish Government showed that deaths in Scotland are 11% above the average for this time of year and have been above the average for the last 26 weeks.
What is unclear, is the extent to which this is being caused by the COVID-19 caseload, or the indirect health effects of the pandemic.
Read the note of discussion98.1KB pdf posted 23 May 2022
Oral evidence
The Committee took evidence on this inquiry during the following sessions;
26 May 2022
23 June 2022
30 June 2022.