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You will be pleased to know that we are now on to our last theme, which is cost and value for money.

You have touched on my next question, which is on the extent of the limitations of the poverty statistics and the impact of that. How might such issues be resolved?

We seem to have lost the Zoom link to our panel members online. I apologise for that. Before we end the session, if any witness has any further comment, we would be more than happy to have that in a written submission.

Thank you so much to all our witnesses. Next week, we will hear from a panel of stakeholders, in our second and final evidence session of our short inquiry.

That concludes our public business, and we move into private session to consider the remaining items on the agenda.

Danny Dorling would like to come back in.

That is very useful. Thanks very much.

Bob Doris would like to ask a supplementary question, after which I will bring in John Mason.

Before I bring in Bob Doris, I believe that Tom Wernham would like to come in. Sorry, Tom, but can you make it brief, please?

Paul, do you want to come back in?

Ruth Patrick would like to come in, and then Tom Wernham. Could you make your answers as brief as possible? I am conscious of the time and we still have quite a lot of questions to get through. Thank you.

That is very helpful.

I now invite Bob Doris to ask his questions.