There's a lot of not-joined-up thinking in the UK government. Has been for ages.

Like, the housing crisis in the UK, there's a lot of empty houses, they're just in places with no jobs, could encourage employers to go there, but HS2 mumble mumble. Could build more houses, but greenbelt, and existing homeowners like the house prices going up, and lots of builders were Polish and oh look Brexit.

Right now, winter fuel allowance is literally burning money because the houses are not good enough. This is also not sensible.