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I also draw the Committee’s attention to the concerns raised by UK Hospitality, which has said that more than 95% of its members have expressed concerns about the Government’s plans to remove the existing requirements to serve waiting days before receiving SSP—statutory sick pay. Let us take, for example, the pub sector, which directly employs over 600,000 people across full-time and part-time roles. The latest statutory sick pay proposals are projected to add upwards of £10 million in additional costs to this sector alone, a sector that we all understand is struggling.