hmt, thatis modelling in decision—making.sury, has a strong set of policy officials but when it came to my interactions, ifound that hmt was limited when it came to special i specialists in science. his view was that this was an important gap in the larger picture. that may be very much the same point that you were making in one of your notes. if we can look at the schedule page 522. this is october 2021 entry. where you say: economic predictions hmt nearly back to normal. no evidence, pure dogma and wrong throughout. that may be a comment that is towards the frustrated late at night end of the spectrum. are you making the same point as mr warner was about the problems with economic advice feeding into decision—making? i agree that is probably the late—night frustration comment. but i did think there was a lack of transparency on the economic side and it was difficult to know exactly what modelling had been done and what modelling had been done and what input there had been to various assertions and comments made. that made i

my gut feeling is hmt will be hard to move to statutory sick pay change, but could be persuaded to gofrom memory only, it would be because it would have a| change? so from memory only, it i would be because it would have a lot of economic— would be because it would have a lot of economic terms dead weight cost. so it would _ of economic terms dead weight cost. so it would be very expensive. you would _ so it would be very expensive. you would be _ so it would be very expensive. you would be paying a lot people for whom they probably would have complied anyway. whereas something which is _ complied anyway. whereas something which is more akin to a discretionary hardship fund, especially we had suggested built into the _ especially we had suggested built into the test and tracing system. so when _ into the test and tracing system. so when you _ into the test and tracing system. so when you are saying to someone that it looks _ when you are saying to someone that it looks like _ when you are saying to someone that it looks like you need to isolate or do you _ it looks like you need to is

got the malaya memorial, they've got the malaya and borneo veterans memorial fleet, air arm memorial, hmtmorials. poush sorts of different memorials. polish forces, war memorial relevance to you, army medical corps, parachute regiment shot at memorial . at dawn memorial. >> oh, i mean, all these different and setting beautiful ground is well worth going to visit. i think. ground is well worth going to visit. i think . so that is visit. i think. so that is actually the uk police memorial is there as well . we should i is there as well. we should i mean, i i've never been we should really go. we are we are going to go because what a place to pay your respects whatever time of year. >> actually it's right there in the midlands isn't it. in the middle of staffordshire just by the yeah right. the m6 toll. yeah right. >> so there you go. okay >> so there you go. okay >> if you can get there, probably be worth be worth doing i >>i -- >> i think lama >> i think we should, we should do more text schoolchildren. maybe already. maybe they do already. >> they do. do i hope >> i think they do. do i ho