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At a development session on 31 January and 1 February, the board will review the progress to date on the redesign work and the work on developing the capability and capacity to deliver the new design.
That will carry on until March 2020—that is how long the scheme is set for. After that date, all the Administrations will need to consider how they will proceed.
That information will be with us in May; we will keep you informed as the practical improvements can be rolled out. Have you any predictions of a date when we might have a system? I have given you the date when we will get the analysis of where the gaps are.
The meetings cannot take place without us, which probably means that we have some influence on the dates, but it has proved to be difficult to set dates.
There are live discussions about by when 100 per cent of all vehicles sold in each country should be electric, with dates from 2025 to 2030 being discussed.
I expect that ministers will want to announce in due course when the consultation will be and what form it will take. So there is no planned date for such an announcement. Ministers have not yet given a date for such an announcement.
A number of other countries are gradually coming out of recession. We are not, and we now appear to be heading for a triple-dip recession, which will create further hardship and distress.