It was a momentous decision in policy terms, because unless the replacement government arrives swiftly and commands immediate confidence hopes of investment and growth in Russia this year will be dashed.
It also recommends NHS trusts develop protocols to ensure replacement joints conform to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidance, and a policy for trials of prostheses.
Unlike health insurance, the risk is greatest at the start of the policy, when the children are very young and the need for replacement income is great and also covers the risk when the need is significantly less, such as when the children are a month away from graduating college and starting their own lives.
If it did so it would mean a break with past Labour policy - the then Prime Minister Tony Blair committed the party to a like-for-like replacement in 2006.