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One thing that we are looking at is whether the current location is the best, not just from a financial point of view but from an engagement point of view.
Our approach will build on the lessons that we have learned from the best start foods and best start grant payments, and from our wider activity on benefit take-up.
The parties to the complaint are advised and a relatively short, anonymised written decision is published on the Standards Commission’s website, outlining the reasoning and any learning points.
This month also completes the first full year of the National Planning Hub. In 2025-26, the Hub has provided over £1 million of support in surge capacity with fifty projects across twenty planning authorities - alongside a cross-cutting programme by the Improvement Service.
I think that members of the national health service workforce will welcome the investment that the Government has made to ensure that NHS staffing has gone up by 26 per cent in the period between when this Government came to office and now.