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These wives have the potential to make a future claim on the Widows' Fund should their husbands die before them.
The method of calculating the payment these women would receive is not set out on the face of the Bill.
We have already had that debate, so I will not go down that road again. There are differing points of view on whether we are talking about an increase in funding for local government.
However, we consider it prudent to address one point in particular, regarding debt enforcement (diligence) and civil procedure rules, in order to provide further clarity on that point, in case there may be some misunderstanding.
Have fares changed since the service moved into public ownership? I will talk about fares first. As I am sure most people are aware, the new trains came into service in 2015, and fares were set at that point.