内容摘要：The people closest to Terry Leader remember him as a man who was always laughing. He emigrated to the UK from the Caribbean island of St Kitts as a child, and was sporty, representing the junior Great Britain martial arts team in the 1970s.

The people closest to Terry Leader remember him as a man who was always laughing. He emigrated to the UK from the Caribbean island of St Kitts as a child, and was sporty, representing the junior Great Britain martial arts team in the 1970s.

So far there has been no signal from the Treasury that they are planning to do anything beyond extending the, at a cost of £421m, until next April.

One MP told me "they need to start working fast on what will happen in the budget".Another MP suggested their own government was acting hypocritically.They said: "Had the last government failed to carry out vital assessments, we would have accused them of avoiding scrutiny and not wanting to be held to account."

Fears were expressed, too, that the government had made a poor first impression on voters who had switched to Labour.MPs with concerns extend beyond those who abstained on Tuesday’s vote.

That said, many others have accepted Rachel Reeves’s argument that in-year cuts were necessary because of the state of the public finances, and that help should be targeted at the most vulnerable.

A Treasury spokesman told the BBC that more than a million pensioners would still get a payment this winter, and the focus was now on ensuring those who were eligible were getting the support they need.The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said they had recently introduced a "streamlined claims process" to make swifter payments to businesses.

The programme can pay individuals with disabilities and the businesses that employ them for the extra costs associated with being in work. It covers a broad range of support, from paying for taxis to powered wheelchairs.Yateley Industries is a near 90-year-old charity in Hampshire that employs almost 60 people, most of whom have disabilities, in a range of packaging jobs.

It says it is owed £186,000 by the Access to Work scheme."It's an existential threat to us," says chief executive, Sheldon McMullan. "If we don't get it, we could potentially close this magical place forever, and that would be a tragedy for the local community and for the government's agenda more broadly."