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There has been a fear that, if we move to our targets, many people will lose their incomes. As Rhoda Grant said and as we have seen in the past, many people will fall off the cliff edge if we do not put things in place to make a just transition and provide jobs.
We have taken the figures for total agency costs from the board accounts, but those are not broken down by staff group at all, and we do not know how many people there are. We just know the overall cost.