Ms Elizabeth Canavan:

Some 1.9 million records have been transferred to the OGCIO. Half will be issued by email, half will be issued by post. We anticipate that batches will be done every day for the next number of days, which will follow on from the approximately 160,000 that were sent by post yesterday. Our plan is to have certificates printed and posted for next-day delivery over the course of this week. I cannot say that everyone will have got their certificate by 19 July, but that is what we are working towards.