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The logic that we have is that investment drives activity and activity drives people and jobs, so if the investment does not go in, the activity does not happen and the jobs will not be there.
That is why we have to focus on town centre and city centre living. For example, when we get people back into an area, we increase demand, which incentivises economic activity, which can incentivise uptake in the occupancy of units.
How would members such as Monica Lennon, Mark Ruskell and me know that our area is being actively considered, so that we can get involved and support any bids or pilots that may be in the pipeline?
We know from academic research that a lot of activity is not particularly visible but is highly co-ordinated, and we think that it could be useful for the committee to think about commissioning research in order to get a sense of the extent to which the register is effective in casting light on lobbying activity.
Christina Leston-Bandeira (Leeds University) said: “Something that other parliaments have done is to get a clearer understanding of their populations, and then target the engagement activity in response.
For example, some of the students who wished to join us last month in January could not get here because of visa offices being shut—due to Covid—in their country, but we were able to facilitate their early learning by engaging them in online activities.