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“I do not know whether Ruth had anything to add.”

“Lovely thank you. That should be good news.”

“Has it been more successful than expected?”

“This is almost about that peak and flow and how you could manage that in a different way. Do volumes work over a 12-month period or are you simply running out as we get to the end?”

“That is useful, thank you. To both of you, if you could make one improvement to the effectiveness of these programmes what would it be? David, do you want to start?”

“Thank you. Ruth, No One Left Behind builds on an earlier programme called Fair Start Scotland. Did the transition from one to the other result in any gaps in provision? Do you have any reflections on that?”

“Thank you, David and Ruth for joining us. David, concerns have been raised about the possible gap in provision following the end of the Work and Health Programme. As this programme was targeted at people closer to the labour market, is this the case and is there a danger that Connect to Work will be redirected to meet …”

“Our green space is vital, not just for our environment and mental health but for the economic benefits that it brings to our communities. Having rail access to our communities is very important. My constituency of North West Leicestershire is not far away from Sherwood Forest. It is home to the national forest. It is e…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Jeremy, and I thank the hon. Member for West Dorset (Edward Morello) for giving us this opportunity to speak about water today. My constituents have written to me pretty consistently since I came to this place about the water industry with concerns about sewage discha…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Southport (Patrick Hurley) for giving us the opportunity to speak in this debate. In my career before being elected, I was involved in a number of successful place-based employment schemes, including having direct resp…”

“My constituents in North West Leicestershire will soon benefit from an average £150 cut per household to energy bills, and a number will be able to access energy efficiency schemes. Can the Secretary of State outline in more detail the expected changes to the fixed elements of our bills, such as the standing charges, w…”

“I thank the Minister for her powerful statement. There are clearly differences in cancer treatment depending on where someone lives, whether a rural or coastal community. My semi-rural constituency sits on the edge of three hospital trusts, leading to difficulties such as those highlighted by a constituent who attended…”

“I have been working closely with driving instructors who provide tuition to learner drivers in North West Leicestershire. One of them reached out to me earlier this week to share that they had got up at 5.45 am to book a test for a student in Loughborough, but no tests were available. What work is being done to increas…”

“I can understand the sense of trying to keep those things very separate. However, in the landscape that more employers will recruit at the point at which somebody already has a disability, the sense of the Healthy Working Lifecycle is that you start healthy, whereas you can join at any point in that cycle. In terms of …”

“Looking at those very small businesses, one of the things that is really interesting, having been around small businesses for a long time, is that they seek advice when they need it. They will not necessarily get Disability Confident accreditation, and then they might be faced with a key member of staff having a disabi…”

“Disability Confident has been mentioned. In a previous life, I have been through the form, so I do understand the process of Disability Confident and can reflect some of the conversations about it being a tick-box exercise and that it does not really push employers to do better. There have been some changes to Disabili…”

“There are other standards. Disability Confident is just one of many. Should the Government be looking at alternatives? Others in the market do different things.”

“Thank you. That is useful.”

“Because we have started on Disability Confident, I will merge the two questions together. You have obviously reflected on Disability Confident and the fear that it is a tick box rather than really looking at how employers are employing more disabled people. When we look at the Healthy Working Lifecycle, a formal accred…”

“This issue is one of the things we have looked at in the Work and Pensions Committee, and the evidence is quite clear that we must remove the two-child benefit cap and enable long-term investment in our young people. Those young people in poverty suffer extraordinarily, and we need to give them better life chances.”