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I will continue his strong focus on delivery, developing our infrastructure and professional capability to advance the Government’s priorities and improve the lives of the people who live and work here.
They are already doing many things such as paying the real living wage, and they have good employment practices, so it was easy for them to sign up to our good employment charter.
Are you factoring those in? Single people who live in big homes could move into smaller accommodation, and they might be happy to live in a town centre.
If you can tackle things such as poverty at source and improve the lives of people who are living in poverty, they will be more likely to be able to get a job and improve their employment prospects over time.
The committee’s concerns on this matter came from a feeling that the cost of living crisis was putting undue pressure on households in debt, that there were additional current pressures and that a swift response was needed.
We made a payments run for the independent living fund, and we expect that that will be the mechanism by which independent living fund payments are made by the time that we get into the summer.