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will benefit from the Scheme than originally estimated, because the number of dependants is proving to be lower than that estimated by the Home Office. Ministers always made it clear that the key figure was the maximum of 50,000 households to be covered (and the 1990 Act spells this out). The figure of 225,000 was only ever intended as an illustrative, not a definitive, upper limit.

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