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The department funds training costs, offers incentive payments to employers and recently launched a three-year apprenticeship action plan aimed at creating opportunities and addressing barriers.

Practices would receive a fixed amount to support ongoing care for healthy patients, rather than payments per visit.

"One's heart has to go out to the good people at Bodycare who are losing their jobs, the suppliers missing payments, and the landlords losing rent. That is the vicious circle of business failure."

"We inherited a broken welfare system and spiralling benefits bill. That's why we're taking action and reforming the system and have seen the proportion of Universal Credit payments to foreign nationals fall since last July."

After months of late and missed rental payments from the tenants, the couple took back the property and found it had been raided by the police and left damaged.