I would be happy to hear back from my right hon. Friend when the cases come in. May I respond to one specific point, about how guidance will ensure that local authorities have in mind the need for financial advice around deferred payments? We are developing statutory guidance in partnership with local authorities and the financial services industry, including representatives from the financial advice sector. We are committed to providing local authorities with the implementation support that they will need to implement the scheme well.

With regard to my right hon. Friend’s other point about what happens when someone moves to another area, we will write to him and other hon. Members to confirm the point. He has managed to flummox both me and, I suspect, officials with that question, but I have no doubt that we will have an answer and we will enlighten him.

To make a very gentle, political point, some of the debate around this has been unfortunate. Whatever the intention, it has ended up being somewhat misleading in its intent. It is slightly irritating—if I can go that far—because I remember that in 1998 the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, that great man, said words to the effect: “I do not want to live in a country where people have to sell their homes to pay for care”. Thirteen years later, tens of thousands of people have had to sell their homes to pay for care because nothing was ever done. I know that predecessors of mine shared that frustration, and I know that many of those who have held this job were completely frustrated that the previous Government failed to act—[Interruption.] My right hon. Friend says: “And me”.

The great thing is that this Government are acting. They commissioned Andrew Dilnot to do the work and we are now getting on with righting a wrong that has been in existence for far too long. The shadow Minister  made the assertion that deferred payments are not a new thing and have been around for a long time. What is new, and so important, is the duty.