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We certainly want to encourage community groups to getactive, organised and involved in solutions—sometimes before they identify problems, because it sometimes takes a problem to arise before people want to become empowered and get organised.
The reason why we were so keen to do the sensitivity analysis was that there is potentially scope in the economy for those who are already in work to work increased hours and to boost the productive capacity of the economy by reducing economic inactivity and bringing that activity back into the economy.
It is like anything: once a problem gets worse, it takes extra effort to get it back again, but we are now getting there. 10:00 I can give you the latest numbers for the up-front cases.