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HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, the purpose of Amendment 39 is to contain the delegated powers in the Bill so that they do not provide the power to authorise commercial dashboards to engage in…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I certainly agree with the spirit behind the amendment—that transparency is a good thing and that the costs should be known—but I just hesitate over how the costs are looked at.…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]This has become more problematic because of pension freedom. Before that, you could not quickly rush to play Gauguin in Tahiti and disappear, taking all your money with you,…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I have some sympathy with the noble Baroness’s amendment in wanting to set out in regulation, rather than rely on regulatory rules, some of the things that will be…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]At one level it is entirely up to the consumer, but if somebody hacks into the system or steals their identity, that is not under the control of the consumer.02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, this is the first chance Parliament has had to scrutinise this major project. I am not asking for the project to be rushed. I am the last person who would want to set up…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I am conscious that I was a member of the Constitution Committee. The issue is not that simply the Government do or do not want flexibility. The issue is that such extensive…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I beg leave to withdraw my amendment.26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I would just say that my argument is not with the noble Baroness personally; she will be provided with the arguments to answer the points we are asking. The argument she put was…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I support the principle behind Amendment 27, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Vaux, but equally I have sympathy with the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Flight. When…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]Does the Minister accept that a regime for notifying dividends is not necessarily the same as stopping the payment of dividends?26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 37, 47, 48, 60 and 61. Amendments 37, 47 and 60 place in the Bill that there can and will be a publicly owned pensions dashboard. The…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I draw attention to my interests in the register. I too welcome this Bill, but I believe that parts need strengthening. The Pensions Regulator protects pensions from the…28 Jan 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]The Minister is accurate. I do not disagree with her description of what is happening with women in the eligible population for auto-enrolment, but it is the millions not in the…28 Jan 2020HANSARDQueen’s SpeechMy Lords, what an act to follow. The Queen’s Speech embraces policies directed at supporting working families, but I want to raise a growing systemic problem within our economy…09 Jan 2020HANSARDQueen’s SpeechMy Lords, the Government may aspire to the uplands of the “greatest place on earth”, but social and economic headwinds may undermine that persuasive rhetoric. The growth in…22 Oct 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]My Lords, I support Amendment 22 to Clause 8. I will steer clear of the debate on Clause 9, being neither a judge nor a barrister or solicitor. In Committee, deep concerns were…24 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]My Lords, I too will speak to Amendments 3, 5 and 9A. In their Amendment 1, the Government accept that to secure accessible and fair court online practice and procedures, regard…24 Jun 2019HANSARDCourts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL]Does the Minister accept that Clause 7 gives the Minister powers to override or disallow the views of the Online Procedure Rule Committee? However meritorious its views, the…10 Jun 2019