Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 7:04 pm on 7 February 2000.
I will not. We had the cut-off point of the date in September because we guaranteed to get the winter fuel cash in hand before Christmas. I regret to say that, with the old technology that we have inherited, it takes us a long time to do it; we have to have a long run-in to do the work. This year's date will probably be a similar one.
In the meantime, we have to do the work to find the people who, for the past two years, have missed out following the court judgment.