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As there are nurseries, it is easy to bolt on those extra hours to nurseries, rather than asking what returning parents and returning mums in particular need when they come back to work.
Transparency has been touched on already, and there was reference to the suggestion that the Democratic Unionist Party might ask for an extra £1 billion for Northern Ireland.
The issue affects not only those who are currently unemployed but those who lack security in employment and fear that, in the future, they might not be in a position to pay for that extra bedroom. The recent change with the Scottish Government’s offer of full mitigation has assisted.
We have worked with COSLA to jointly supplement that transfer by an extra £40 million per annum to deal with the reductions of 10 per cent applied by the UK Government.
The state recognises the importance of the extra-legal, pre-political and what you might call anthropological nature of marriage, and the state protects it in law.