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The second question was about backdating payments versus paying the best start grant. When we were talking about the best start grant, I was scribbling down that the issue with it is that it is a lump sum payment and is made at certain points in a child’s life.
—Official Report, Social Security Committee, 27 September 2018; c 19, 26. It is a mixed report, some of which I totally agree with and some of which I have difficulty with.