Warren Oates

That, I believe was covered by module 1 of the COVID inquiry. Yesterday saw module 2 published. There are another 8 still to come.

Huh?

Lol at LBC telling us that they are bringing us the bad news that energy prices are going to rise by 0.2% in January and make household bills more expensive.

It means a £1750 annual bill will be £1753.50.

So £3.50 a year more.

Less than 7 pence a week.

How will we cope!

Indeed.

Though also much of that was for pleading guilty early on, rather than any other mitigations...

How many others in Reform or its earlier incarnations are now deeply concerned?

He will have to serve a minimum of half the sentence before being potentially eligible release on licence.

Former Reform leader in Wales sentenced to 10.5 years in prison for accepting bribes from Russia.

Here they announced a package of reforms to get growth, create jobs & increase prosperity!

+ A new AI Growth Zone in South Wales

+ Bristol & London to get benefits

+ British AI firms to grow and AI innovation to flourish

+ £137m to drive breakthroughs & develop new drugs, cures & treatments

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AI to power national renewal as government announces billions of additional investment and new plans to boost UK businesses, jobs and innovation A major package of new reforms and investment will put AI at heart of government’s mission to drive growth, create jobs and spread prosperity across the country.

Many people don't understand AI. They see a specific issue with a specific use case (eg generative AI and creative industries) and think all AI is bad.

But it's not. It's the future. It's here to stay and we all need to embrace it and use it where we can.

Thankfully the government get that!

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Quicker to lock down.

The lost month of Feb 2020 was wasted through inaction according to the inquiry.

Other countries acted sooner. We didn't.

We were slow..dithered. Our government didn't take the risk seriously.

People at the time said we needed to do more, more quickly.

Thank you Labour!

New Sunderland-made Nissan LEAF qualifies for £3,750 discount under government’s EV grant in a boost for North East manufacturing There are now 39 models of electric vehicles eligible for the Electric Car Grant.

39 models of EVs now qualify for the Electric Car Grant of up to £3,750.

The latest model added is the Nissan Leaf, which will be built in Sunderland from next month!

Since the grant was introduced in July, over 35,000 EVs purchases have used the grant.

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Full steam ahead: PM to announce £400m worth of deals for trains, planes and submarines as he unlocks major opportunity for UK businesses at G20 summit Prime Minister set to arrive in South Africa today ahead of the G20 summit, to drive forward growth and opportunity across the United Kingdom.

The PM getting on with the job, despite the media faux-outrage.

£400m worth of deals being unlocked for UK businesses to build & maintain trains, planes & submarines for other countries, as the PM heads to South Africa for the G20 Summit.

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There is nothing stopping that happening.

Indeed some of the wider £50bn I mentioned has already been direct towards affordable home building. We could potentially see social housing too - though are the returns for the people paying into the pensions going to be the same for that type of housing?

Your comments don't match with reality.

The government was slow to respond at the start.

Many people were saying that at the time.

More needed to be done and quicker.

The inquiry has said things like the PM was not taking the thread seriously enough.

This isn't hindsight, but what happened.

Which side of Easter?

Major pension schemes back £200 million initial fund to scale UK science and tech Chancellor doubles down on growth as her number one priority ahead of the Budget, as she welcomes major pension funds to Downing Street.

This is great - getting our pension schemes to invest in British science & technology innovation.

£200m initial investment unlocked & more to come.

It's in addition to getting 17 of the largest workplace pension schemes to commit to investing 5%+ in UK infrastructure - worth £50bn over the decade.

He is there and always has been. But the media are twisting everything and hiding much of it.

Cheltenham in mid March 2020. Over 60,000 people attended on each of the 4 days.

Potentially a quarter of a million gathered, mixed and spread out across the country afterwards, just as COVID was establishing itself in the UK.

People are on record as saying we needed to do more, more quickly to prevent things getting as bad as they did.

'Act fast. Reduce impact. Save Lives.' Should have been the slogan.

Instead we got 'Act slow. Spread COVID. End lives.'

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Wow, just look at this - huge condemnation of the approach the Tories took to COVID, estimating 23k more died as a result of their delays & inaction.

And it's not as if this wasn't known about at the time. We knew they were too slow. Many of us said it at the time.

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Last year saw an increase in the minimum wage well above inflation.

I'd expect to see something similar this year too - maybe 4% increase, perhaps 5%. Just my guesses though.

And wages in general are still increasing faster than inflation.

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It's about how the state will and should always intervene on things.

What it does so with can and should change, depending on circumstances.

Here there is a need for intervention and also benefits way beyond the financial, so it makes sense to do it.

And the government is helping with pay.

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So once that bill passes, we could be getting close to a second Kings Speech - maybe in late winter or early spring (but this is just me speculating. It could be next month or in the summer).

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If the Lords accept, then I believe it goes for Royal Assent.

If I'm right, the passing of the digital assets bill leaves only 1 other that originated in the Lords - bills which cannot be carried over to another Parliamentary session.

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The other was the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, where the Commons considered Lords amendments.

All but 1 was accepted. The rejected 1 is a reporting request, which the gov says is already available via other sources.

It's back in the Lords on 24th Nov - hopefully to accept it

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Two more bills made progress towards becoming law yesterday.

The short Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill [Lords], which makes it clear that digital assets are 'property' and can be owned, passed the Commons unamended.

I believe that means it can now go for Royal Assent.

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Thanks. Will be interesting to see what is says.

Which module is it?

We shouldn't need free school meal for anyone, or free prescriptions for some. Or healthcare, free at the point of use...

...or do we actually need those things?

Where do you draw the line?

Children with SEND to benefit from earlier intervention as government backs research into tools to identify special educational needs sooner Innovators to test earlier interventions to help support children with SEND, backed by government.

Children with SEND to benefit from earlier intervention as government backs research into tools to identify special educational needs sooner

Innovators to test earlier interventions to help support children with SEND, backed by the government.