Alex Versailles

That has been one of the criticisms of this government, is that they have had a lot of reviews into things.

Do you think that they should have done more of the work in opposition?

It's just worth giving the context on that, which I'm sure Louise would anyway.

But a big issue for local authorities is that on average, they spend about two thirds of their budgets on children's and adult social care across the board.

So there is just a very real capacity issue for councils when it comes to the level of social care they can provide, which is why there's been a very active conversation.

And I'm guessing your inquiry might feed into this about whether the split that there currently is between the NHS and social care, where they're quite not often seen on par with each other.

And it can sometimes be sort of a competition between the two in terms of service provision.

as opposed to a more holistic service.

The challenge, I guess, is that when there have been attempts for national care services in the past, like in Scotland, made an attempt to do it, but it's just run into challenge after challenge after challenge.

So do you think it's, A, the right approach, and B, a practical one?

You know there are no elections right now.

Great plan.

Let's just... I think just give it a go.

Pleasure as ever.