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HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I support Amendments 83 and 86. Noble Lords have already explained the problems in great detail. However, this crisis dates back more than two years. NHS hospitals and…04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I have added my name to this amendment. I support my noble friend and echo his request to the Minister for a meeting to discuss this issue further. I understand that it may not be…04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend for his response. I welcomed, very much, the commitment in the manifesto to look at this issue. However, I hope he will forgive me if I suggest that this…04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I echo that praise for the Pension Protection Fund. It has been a marvellous success story and has rescued so many people. It is run efficiently and with care for those who claim…04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I take my noble friend’s point on the specific proposals in Amendment 86 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Warner, which I have signed. However, were the amendment to be redrawn…04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I add my support to many aspects of the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles. She is trying to do something very helpful for the Committee and the Bill. We…04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend for her response, but I confess to being extremely disappointed with the robust refusal to address the issue. The current easements are not working,…04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, perhaps I should apologise for taking the Committee’s time on issues that I feel have an opportunity to be resolved in the Bill. I hope that noble Lords will understand…04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, noble Lords will understand that I believe that this amendment is vital to the ongoing success of automatic enrolment. I add my congratulations to the noble Baroness,…04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend for her reply, which does not come as a surprise to me. I also thank noble Lords for their useful contributions. I believe that there may be an issue here.…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I have added my name to this amendment, which is a very important amendment in the context of consumer protection. As the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey, has so excellently…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment and will speak to my Amendment 78, which is grouped here. I fully agree with her that it is important to protect members’ pensions…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 54 and 65, both of which are on the same topic. I beg the Committee’s indulgence. This is such an important issue that I want to expand on…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I echo the words of the noble Baroness, Lady Drake. A number of elements of the expense shown in the impact assessment are elements that one would have hoped that the industry…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, the amendments in this group stand in my name and those of my noble friend Lord Flight, the noble Baroness, Lady Sherlock, and the noble Lords, Lord McKenzie and Lord…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend. Of course, he is absolutely right but the point of the dashboard is that much younger people can plan their future pension income. The current procedure…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend very much for his response. I said that this was a probing amendment, and I recognise that, in theory, such powers appear to exist. In practice, they do…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]The noble Lord raises an important point which highlights that I have not necessarily covered all the areas to be dealt with on this. Including auditors and having a requirement…02 Mar 2020