people in government talk about consultation exercises and often they acknowledge in private there is hardly any engagement at all. on this topic, nearly 200,000 responses. thank you, chris. earlier i spoke to steve granite from abbey logistics group who told me the shortages issues in recruiting staff will go beyond christmas it is definitely going to go beyond christmas. even if we had 100,000 drivers knock on the door and say i want to become a hgv driver, it would take government over 12 months just to get them through the tests, at best. they need to increase testing capacity extremely quickly and use the ministry of defence and private sector, and look at putting hgv drivers on the skilled worklist. another area where labour shortages are causing major issues is in the agricultural sector with some farmers having to pay labourers up to £30 an hour