Chamber and committees

We have seen some best practice involving home link workers and financial inclusion in schools, which has helped drive down the stigma that we know exists. As you have said, children live in the space where their parents live, too, and experience the same things.

Thank you for that. Can we also hear from Hannah?

I am sorry to interrupt, but I need to bring in Wendy McAuslan. You are underlining points that we have heard previously, especially about leaving the minimum income in people’s bank accounts. We will take evidence on the council tax next week and your evidence will help us to formulate our questions.

Thank you, Sarah-Jayne. It was helpful to hear that, and it will help us with our questions for the next panel.

Do you have another question, Paul?

We will hear very briefly from Sarah-Jayne Dunn and Anne Baldock, and then we will have to move on to the next question.

Thank you.

I know that Emma Jackson wanted to come in on this question, but I ask her to follow up in writing, because I still have two members who want to ask questions and we are over time.

I will bring in Jeremy Balfour now.

Pam-Duncan Glancy has questions for Peter Kelly.

I have no indication that anybody wants to come in.

We have come to the end of our time, which was too short; we could probably ask a lot more questions. If the witnesses think that there is something that we need to hear or that you want to underline, please write to us. That would be interesting and helpful to our questioning next week on council tax and insolvency. It was important for us to hear what Zahra Hussain said about the debt and mental health form sometimes being ignored, as well as the cost barriers to it.

I thank everybody for their attendance.

Thank you. I see that Emma Jackson would like to respond, too.