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I do not contest the public policy argument in favour of that, but those disposals are extra tasks and stresses that we have to undertake and extra profits that we will not have in the future.
My friends who have children tell me every day that they have been harassed in the morning because they have bought something with extra packaging, something that is not eco-friendly or something that puts detergents into water.
Potentially, we could raise bursaries of up to £1,000 for the least well-off students which, Jeremy, would provide them with extra support while they were studying for degrees.
The boards retain the money, so any board that is more efficient than we ask it to be gets to keep the extra money for reinvestment. There is no perverse incentive in that system, but there would be if we were clawing back the efficiency savings.
Given that you have answered that you wish such provisions to be made, how much extra money would that add to the cost of the project, which is already expensive?
To fuel poverty-proof the whole stock, bringing it up to a standard assessment procedure target, or SAP target, would require an extra £1.4 billion, which represents an extra £175 million a year.
This committee is, surely, about best use of resources. Extra resources are always acceptable, but it is clear that resources alone have not solved the problems.