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There is also an argument that they drive stronger “buy-in” in a public service. The NHS is probably the most obvious example of the latter; schools are a good example too.
It told us that “more local control would get community buy-in and increase compliance, because what is happening would be known, as opposed to what we have at the moment with the remote service”.
In April 2024, an Edinburgh-based mum told Save the Children that: “the Scottish child payment is amazing – it helps me buy food and clothes. Sometimes I put a bit towards my energy bills too.
Butter was one of the challenges and he explained that consumers were not brand loyal for this product and would buy whatever was on promotion and because of that large manufacturers tended to force their products in.
Teresa Medhurst’s colleagues have been fantastic in supporting us and keeping contact with potential programme participants during the lockdown period.
He has spent an enormous amount of time over the festive season perusing the deal, and, as the head of our office in Brussels, he has excellent contacts who will have been able to inform him.
Are the banks that you represent involved with the British Business Bank, or have they had much interaction or contact with it? Does Kerry Sharp want to comment on that?