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Will she comment on people’s right to have their free hours of childcare outside the area that they live in? I have been contacted by a number of constituents who want childcare where they work and not where they live.
I know of someone in Mr Gibson’s constituency who, despite living on the mainland, was told by a retailer on the phone that they would have to pay a significant surcharge because they lived in rural Scotland.
I absolutely agree that part of the way to communicate the plan is to present that vision of what people’s lives might be like, where they will live, the better transport options that they will have and so on.
My assumption is that the rate for the additional dwelling supplement is not having a negative impact on people's ability to move because they do not live in their holiday home—they live in their primary home, and they do not pay ADS if they are buying another primary residence.
The increasing conditionality of contracts with regard to fair work and paying the real living wage is welcome. I think that 85 per cent of social enterprises already pay the real living wage.