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The letter also highlighted that addressing the fiscal barriers to asset transfers could extend the field life of assets and reduce decommissioning costs.
The important thing to stress at the outset is that a large percentage of people were transferred through Department for Work and Pensions data matching on to the existing register.
That question is interesting and it touches on my feeling that the experience of older people is not being transferred. We do not have a mechanism to transfer their experience well.
It is just not possible to wave a magic wand and get people to transfer into smaller properties that might be owned by a housing association such as the one that I am involved in because, with the best will in the world, they have limited stock.
Many months before an individual is due to transfer, we will write to them. We want to give people suitable notice but not so much notice that they have forgotten about it by the time they get to the point of transfer.
Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee 26 March 2014 Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee 26 March 2014Transport Transport Good morning, everyone.
On Willie Rennie’s point about the £26 million, if he had been here in the debate last night, he would know that I am not distancing myself or my party from that.