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It is also worth looking at paragraph 87 of the impact assessment on the long-term issue of the lack of women workers and workers from minoritised communities in the construction sector. As the Minister said in her introduction, we will need 240,000 extra workers by 2029, so we need to draw on a much broader pool of people than we have been doing up to now. What are the Government looking to do about that? If there are to be significant steps in the next 12 months, is it enough for there to be only a modest change to the levy? Allowing for inflation, it is, in effect, a continuation of last year’s levy. Should we not be doing more about this?