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HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I will make a few observations about this suite of amendments. It strikes me that the demands to add even more to the current proposal for the dashboard are fraught with…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend for his detailed response and the broadness of his willingness to consider the points that we have made on this important issue. I am delighted that he…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend for his very thorough response to this group of amendments. Is it not possible that without a comprehensive, overarching regulatory framework for all…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]02 Mar 2020HANSARDIsrael and Palestine: United States’ Proposals for PeaceMy Lords, I declare an interest in that I am Jewish and have relations who had to flee Europe as refugees or were, sadly, killed for their religion. I understand that the…27 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise briefly—I have added my name to one of the amendments—to support the concept that has been so well explained already by noble Lords and to echo the warnings that…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I am so sorry to interrupt my noble friend. First, I want to draw the Committee’s attention to my interests as set out in the register in connection with pensions, and to the fact…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I hope my noble friend will forgive me for intervening, but after what he has just said, it is important to put on record that there are potentially significant dangers in…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 28 in my name in this group and will speak to Amendment 92, to which I have added my name. I also support a number of the other amendments. The…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend for her comprehensive response. I think she can tell from the comments that we would be grateful for some follow-up conversations. In the meantime, I beg…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I support my noble friend’s proposed amendment. He has raised an important issue here. Once again, it is about pre-empting a problem that we have seen elsewhere and not importing…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I added my name to the amendment moved comprehensively by the noble Lord, Lord Vaux. I want to add a few points. As many of us said at Second Reading, communication is…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]In that case, I seek clarification on what would happen if the employer became insolvent. There would still be the same problem that members’ pots would be needed to cover the…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend. Before we finish on this topic, I hear what is being said but what I was trying to achieve with Amendment 5 was to avoid repeating the mistakes already…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I shall raise similar points. Will ask my noble friend say how the 0.75% charge cap was arrived at, given that the purpose of the CDC scheme, as I understood it, is to provide…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I hope I can intervene helpfully. This is allied to the issue of data. If a scheme has to wind up, the biggest cost is the administration, and the likelihood of a scheme with poor…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I support all three amendments. I have added my name to Amendment 2 —so excellently moved by the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey —which intends that any CDC scheme that is…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare my interest as set out in the register of interests and warmly welcome my noble friend to the Front Bench on the Bill. I certainly agree that this is far more…28 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillI thank my noble friend for giving way. A number of us on these Benches are deeply uncomfortable with what we are being told, as she well knows. We are willing to give the…21 Jan 2020