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The new prevention of homelessness duties, which are due to be introduced as soon as possible after the summer recess, will be an important milestone in achieving our commitment of preventing homelessness at source.
There is also the potential for a recession in the wider economy. I think that the renewables industry will buck that, but it will be interesting to see how it reacts.
However, having spoken to nurses from the RCN outside the Parliament building before the recess, I know that their working conditions and their terms and conditions are really important issues, too.
The biggest pressure against any bits of ground anywhere that were identified as potential to be developed was their being sat on because of their potential for private house development, until the financial recession of 2008 kind of brought that to an end.
In the previous debate on the subject a matter of weeks ago, the transport minister and I apologised unreservedly on two separate occasions to those island communities. During the Easter recess, I visited constituents by travelling on the very vessels on which they rely.
The pandemic has caused huge challenges in the labour market and exacerbated some of the trends that were under way prior to the recession. The retail sector has shrunk considerably in a short period of time, and it may not recover to where it was before.
Are members content to note the correspondence and to return to the issue after the summer recess, when we are likely to have received another update from the minister?
I would like to put on record the fact that I have arranged to go to Brussels in the first week of the recess to pick up a few general transport issues, particularly on EU funding.