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Your report is a section 22 report for the financial year 2022-23, but you published it in May 2025. Could you elaborate on the complexities that you have referred to?
When you are in the operational space of delivering a new benefit, you may need guidance. That has always come up, as you may know from previous years, and we have done a lot of work on it.
That moves handover to—I hope—before the end of May or into June; as I said in my letter to you yesterday, we might need some time after the end of May for those final handover and acceptance trials.
Those rules will be further updated in the light of the bill.However, I recognise that those changes may create some anxiety with regard to how they may be implemented.