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The cost within year will depend on the go-live date of the payment, but we have set out in the programme for government our analysis of that go-live date, and believe that the first payments will be made before Christmas.
As a committee, we will go through stage 1 of the bill and produce a report, so we will have to make decisions. To date—last week and today—we have not heard anybody say that they are in favour of the bill.