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I cannot recall the number of requests, but we have had a briefing on it and it runs to, I think, many, many tens of thousands across the public sector annually.
Covid-19 has supercharged existing inequalities, deepening poverty, and drawing many thousands more families into poverty and destitution, putting the human rights of disabled people at further risk.
We would be tinkering at the edges of a scheme that many of your stakeholders have said is inherently and systemically unfair and would not be dealing with many of the challenges and problems that they have raised in their evidence.