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Although the Green amendment was not accepted, it would have sought a further extension of the scheme to include people with addiction issues who are in receipt of treatment. We know that many of those people have chaotic lifestyles.
They build new businesses and create jobs, providing a boost to local and national economies; they add to national income by generating new wealth and increased tax receipts; and they generate multiplier effects for the economy by creating new products and services.
With regard to the board performance escalation framework, one board that is not currently in receipt of brokerage but which has been identified as potentially being in an escalating position is NHS Forth Valley.
As my colleague Stephen Lloyd foretold when he sat on the Work and Pensions Select Committee, half of the families who are in receipt of the housing benefit component of universal credit, which is no longer being paid directly to landlords, are in rent arrears of a month or more.
During the committee inquiry, we spoke about the fact that, currently, the most pressurised time is on receipt of custodies, typically on a Monday morning or after a holiday weekend, when the numbers are particularly significant.
The issue involves the profiling of the money that goes out and the receipts that come back in. The needs of the loan scheme fitted with the updated forecasts and the projections that we had for the second half of the year, so we did not require any other programmes to be curtailed as a result of the CAP loans.
There is provision for developments of fewer than 30 properties, which will probably affect rural areas. We are in receipt of complaints regarding some new developments.
As part of the overall settlement, there is substantial support of £250 million to take forward the integration of health and social care and a further £107 million to deliver the living wage for social care workers. That means that those in receipt of war pensions, for example, will not be penalised when they are assessed for social care.
If a university that owned some buildings and land wished to sell those assets to raise a capital receipt to enable it to fund an improvement in estate and the development of some more world-class educational facilities, that would strike me as an absolutely prudent and sustainable decision for a university to make.
The Government’s view is that universities and colleges are independent institutions. To be in receipt of public money, they must have good and robust governance in place.