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That ties into what Kevin Stewart said and raises the question of how we make the best out of a system that does not make the best out of the money that it has.
The bill’s underlying principle is to give people choice and flexibility, to allow them to make the choices that suit them best and best meet their needs and to have a system that is flexible enough in that regard.
I know that we have received a lot of written evidence but it always seems that, despite our best efforts, these evidence sessions are constrained by time.
The difficulty is deciding on the best way to achieve that. Is it best done by increasing people’s hourly rate, or by having more people in the workforce as a whole?