I apologise for not having been here at the beginning of the right hon. Gentleman’s speech. I want to touch on his point about payments. My constituency has four times the national mortality rate from hepatitis C—of course, not all of it acquired from contaminated blood—and a number of constituents who are living with the condition have written to me about it over the years. The latest comments have been about getting a conclusion to this process as fast as possible. One of them says:
“Existing mechanisms should be disbanded and replaced as quickly as possible with a new improved arrangement for processing payments.”
Is that not a short-term consideration to go with the longer-term ones?