Catherine, that's a good reason why you should always go to an authoritative source and not a newspaper article! The journo who has written that has clearly got that detail wrong. I searched across all the govt sites and there is not mention of an increase apart from July 2008 and a CPI adjustment.

Dob 'em in to Media Watch, I say!

I still think little Johnny is likely to try to throw a few election sweeteners around, just don't know that it'll be in this area!