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There must come a point when you suddenly cannot pay your bills—when you cannot operate the buildings, pay your staff, buy anything or replace anything that is broken.
The housing allowance for private renters has been frozen, and the cost of buy-to-let mortgages has gone through the roof, which has pushed up private rents.
We can equate it to pounds per week; as Martin Booth said, the public can often misconstrue what a particular increase would mean and what it would buy, so we set out a range of figures to show what it would mean.
In reference to Kate Forbes’s question, it is the additionality of the costs of the likes of pay claims—I am not talking about inflation, which means that you can buy less—that squeezes the Government’s budget and that has the impact of displacing our ability to do everything that we would want to do.
For example, we have talked before about some of the companies that are popping up that allow people to buy things and spread the payment over three amounts.
I have seen how important sibling contact is to the welfare of children through friends of mine who adopted a little boy aged 18 months, and his sister one year later.
We felt that that very much hindered our co-operation and contact, but now that we do not have to deal with that, we can speed up that co-operation and contact.