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HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords who took part in this interesting debate. The big difference between what I have advocated and what the Minister has set out as the Government’s…03 Feb 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, in moving Amendment 168, I shall speak also to Amendments 169 to 171 in my name; I thank my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe for adding her name to three of those four…03 Feb 2026HANSARDPension Schemes Bill03 Feb 2026HANSARDPension Schemes Bill26 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles of Berkhamsted, for her forensic analysis of both the Mansion House Accord and the ways in which there is a significant…26 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords who took part in this debate, which has demonstrated that there is unanimity on this side of the Committee on scale not being the most important…26 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, I will speak to my Amendments 91 and 95. I thank my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe for adding her name to them. Having had a little detour into asset mandation in the…26 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, all the amendments in this group raise important issues. I hope that none of them will be necessary, because I hope that we will have got rid of the power from the Bill,…26 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillIf the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles, had listened, she would know that I said I thought what the Government were doing had gone too far, because there were instances where there…26 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillThe noble Baroness knows that she and I disagree on this subject. I hold to my view that the buying and selling of shares is simply the exchanging of financial assets.26 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, my Amendment 88 proposes to limit the power in Clause 34 to increase the size of the pot classified as small so that it is limited to £10,000. I welcome the fact that…22 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillWill the Minister say what the evidence base is for the assertions she just made?22 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillI am struggling to understand why the Government are setting their face against good performance. They seem to be obsessively pursuing scale and consolidation of the industry,…22 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, Amendments 134, 137 and 138 in this group are in my name. I thank my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe for adding her name to Amendment 137; unfortunately, she needs to be…22 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, I support all the amendments in this group. When I came to draft my own amendments, I discovered that this area of mandation was a rather crowded marketplace, so I…22 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillDoes the Minister understand that if you are currently a small scheme, unless you have certainty about being able to qualify to go into transitional relief, you will not be able…22 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, I do not support Amendment 45A, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Sikka. I am not sure that the kind of regulations envisaged in this amendment could actually create a…19 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, I will say a little more in our debate on the next group about how surpluses should be used, but we must recognise that employers in defined benefit schemes underwrite…19 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, I understand the motivation behind the amendments in this group, which call, in one way or another, for inflation protection, in particular for pre-1997 pensions that do…19 Jan 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillI want to comment briefly on Amendment 35, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Brixton, where he seemed to characterise the need to have members in the room alongside…19 Jan 2026