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There are also worries about some of the details in Sir Robert Francis’s scheme, published in July. Some of them may not be substantiated, but the fact is that the victims cannot get answers. Around 1,993 bereaved families are still left without an interim payment and no information about when one will be made, because their loved one died without a wife or a partner, and those people I have spoken about who are not wives or partners are excluded from this first tranche. This includes grieving elderly parents of dead children, or children who had to abandon their careers to look after dying infected parents because there was no care from the state. There is also a very technical question—I promise I will not go into much detail—about which pot of redress an interim payment will be deducted from for these affected people getting payments. Will it be from the infected person’s estate or the total for the widow’s own estate? I say again: when will there be an update for the affected group of victims?