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I know from speaking to members who received the benefits that it used to be possible to get back in the 1980s that people were able to get housing benefit, and that they could get an extra £10 a week in unemployment benefit to set up as a small business.
We know that temporary accommodation often places families outside their support networks and their children’s education networks, which means that they incur extra costs—transport costs, in particular.
If the portfolio is already overcautious, as we would submit it should, the extra 0.5 per cent is quite a blunt instrument to then take it into overcompensation territory, as James Dalton says.
However, because I know that I am running an out-patient department at the same time, my professional judgment would allow me to say that I need an extra five staff in the mornings when out-patients are coming in.
First, the marginal propensity to spend means that, if people who do not have a lot of money are given a little extra, they tend to spend it rather than saving it, which stimulates demand in the economy.
Instead, it got dismissed and she was told, “We cannot be bringing extra things in now”. She was told that SDS was a separate thing so she did not get the opportunity that she should have had.