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The idea that work experience should be for only one week was not widely seen as best practice. The best companies do more than that, offering opportunities outside school terms and at weekends, although that clearly does not work for all young people.
When we estimated a cost of £80 million back in 2016, we were in the very early stages of negotiation on national bargaining. We did a best estimate based on the information that we had at the time.
After all, it must happen and, as Andy Wightman rightly pointed out, the best place for it to start is the letter to which 23 journalists put their names earlier this month.
Our parliamentary draftsman is unable to attend today so, although we will endeavour to answer your questions to the best of our abilities, if there are particular technical matters that arise, we may have to respond in writing.
However, I agree with colleagues that we have to allow the external review process to move forward and explore how business rates can best reflect economic conditions and support growth.
Would the policy of no compulsory redundancies not, in effect, trump the policy of pursuing best value for the Government as a whole, or am I misreading the way in which the document is constructed?