Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

I will take the last part of the question about where it all went wrong. It is important to say we have provided accommodation for 100,000 people on both the international protection and Ukraine side since the beginning of 2022. That has been a considerable success in meeting the objectives the Government set out to deliver on in responding, first, to a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine which was not foreseen and came upon us in a sudden way.

It materialised in a very unpredictable way and obviously created an enormous, unprecedented amount of accommodation demand in the system. It was an unfortunate confluence in the sense that we began to see considerable growth in international protection numbers over the same period.

As I referred to in my opening statement, we have put our community engagement on a different footing. We did so late last year with the establishment of the community engagement team. That was out of recognition of the pressure that has been building in local communities and the level of resistance we have been seeing in them. In part, it is a response to what people on the ground have been seeing in terms of pressure on services and so on at local level. We absolutely recognise that. It would not be possible to accommodate at the scale at which we have accommodated without putting that kind of pressure on communities and services around the country. We absolutely recognise that. We recognise that this has been challenging for communities.