Ms Clare Austick:

Very often we look at different sectors which are siloed. With regard to the accommodation example given by the Chairman, if support was given to colleges to build affordable purpose-built student accommodation and students had accommodation to live in, that would, potentially, free up the private rental market. We need to identify where education overlaps with different sectors and what we can do, collectively, to ensure there is a better, more prosperous, inclusive society going forward. Funding allocated to the entire education sector and to building student accommodation would, it is hoped, alleviate the wider accommodation crisis. We have to link up the different difficulties and challenges we meet and see where the intersectionality is.