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I will concentrate on that in my opening remarks, although it will be for members of the committee to decide what to question me on. The origins of the report date back to "Designed to Care", which was published in December 1997.
We can respond to that discomfort by taking steps to ensure that, if money is to go into a prisoner's bank account, it is ring-fenced while an opportunity for the prisoner's victims to take action to sue the prisoner for the money is put in place.
It seems to be based on an estimate, which appears to have been founded on wrong information or at least information that is now out of date. It is highly unlikely that the figure will go down in that way.
Such children can live in relative poverty, without access to the dance lessons, music lessons, school trips, holidays and other things that other children enjoy.
They would have the press all over the place, looking to see whether they had filched money, taken a holiday abroad or whatever. Mismanagement is a different thing.
Information on recently adopted directives and transposition dates is available on our website. I am not sure that we follow closely enough the separation of powers—that is, the extent of reservation or devolution of powers—to be able to make the breakdown.
Everywhere in the country, people who are not genuine blue badge holders use blue badges. There are expiry dates on blue badges, but there is no national register for them and the holder's photo is on the back, rather than the front.