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This report considers the Social Security Committee’s work to date and looks ahead to, what we see as, some of the challenges for our successor committee.
To what extent is organised crime a function of the recession and inequality? I am genuinely interested to know whether any research links a growth in organised crime and illicit trade with poverty, inequality and recession.
The introduction of the policy as we entered this recession—to which, I have to say, there seems little end—exacerbated the hardship for landlords and, as I have just explained, added to disincentives to develop new build.
I remind Parliament that the proposed introduction date for the tax is still some time away, and its introduction is dependent on the passage of Scottish and UK legislation.