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Benefits Uprating

It will not all have been done in a year's time. A year from now the system will have been in place for only a couple of months, and I think it ambitious to try and tie me down to a figure representing a change over a couple of months. It is ambitious on the hon. Gentleman's part, and giving such a figure would certainly be ambitious on mine. What we have said is that we expect the introduction of the automatic entitlement as a result of a single telephone call to lift about 50,000 pensioners out of poverty by 2010.