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17 November 2020
The company differentiated between new builds and existing stock, suggesting that the former could be covered via the planning process with a “de facto assumption” new builds would be connected.
Mr Booth gave the following example to illustrate the issue for local authorities—
The data on children who are entitled to the school footwear and clothing grant is driven by data that we hold, because it is driven by council tax and housing benefit-type data. We can automate the payments of that grant; [...]
That will happen this year, for the first time, but it will be the first step, not the full-blown automated solution. That shows the functionality that the portal will allow us to deploy as we improve and add to it.
It is all very well to have things written in a contract of employment, but if there are other levers that do not have the same paper trail, such as a tied house, ultimately we will never get the person on whom we want to pin the blame. How do we get round that in legislation?
But if they had to make such a commitment, that would imply that absenteeism was a problem to some degree, because that would introduce a commitment for the tenant to return to the croft. I am not trying to trap you or pin you down; I am just trying to find a solution.