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HANSARDPension Protection Fund (Moratorium and Arrangements and Reconstructions for Companies in Financial Difficulty) Regulations 2020My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her explanation of these regulations and for her time in advance of today. I am grateful, too, to all noble Lords who have spoken, and…14 Sept 2020HANSARDKickstart Scheme[ Inaudible. ]—young people not in full-time education or employment. We have been urging government to introduce an equivalent to the last Labour Government’s Future Jobs Fund,…07 Sept 2020HANSARDJobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013 (Remedial) Order 2019My Lords, I thank the Minister for her introduction to the order and all noble Lords who have spoken. With apologies for length, I shall read into the record the events that…03 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Self-isolation Payment SchemeMy Lords, I am grateful. People are told to quarantine as soon as they have symptoms and wherever they live. Can I ask the Minister two questions? First, why is the payment only…02 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Self-isolation Payment SchemeTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the eligibility criteria for the new payment scheme for people self-isolating and unable to work from home in areas with a high incidence…02 Sept 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillMy Lords, I will concentrate on those parts of the Bill that make provision for social security co-ordination, particularly Clause 5 and Schedules 2 and 3. We are currently part…22 Jul 2020HANSARDChurches: Reopening of BuildingsMy Lords, I remind the House that I am a Church of England priest, and I was therefore delighted when churches could reopen for private prayer. However, I found out because a…22 Jul 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the Minister for those remarks and concur with them. We have agreed on so much about this Bill: we support the new CDC pension schemes; we all want to see…15 Jul 2020HANSARDChildren Living in PovertyMy Lords, the Minister keeps mentioning work, but TUC research found that the number of poor children in working households rose by 38% between 2010 and 2018—and that was before…15 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Churches and Places of WorshipMy Lords, I declare an interest as a Church of England priest. Like my noble friend, I have seen churches and places of worship working flat out in the pandemic, supporting the…09 Jul 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I should declare a historical pecuniary interest as a former independent director of the Financial Ombudsman Service. I should also declare that my home is in Durham so…30 Jun 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I will deal first with the data issues. There are known to be problems with data quality in many pension schemes that need to be addressed. The regulator has rightly…30 Jun 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Vaux, for returning to this issue. We all know that there are some DB schemes with significant deficits and employers who could be…30 Jun 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, this has been another interesting debate. Before I address the question of the dashboard, I pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Young, who has been deploying his…30 Jun 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who raised climate issues in relation to pension schemes during our proceedings, especially those involved in the cross-party talks led…30 Jun 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, we all believe that trustees of DB schemes should have a clearly defined funding and investment strategy for insuring pensions in the long term. However, if that is…30 Jun 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I say at the outset that Labour supports Part 1 of the Bill and the move to create CMP schemes, provided, of course, that they are not used as a means of downgrading…30 Jun 2020HANSARDUniversal Credit: Court of Appeal JudgmentMy Lords, universal credit works on fixed assessment periods. But if, like NHS workers, you get paid at the end of the month, you can find two pay days falling in one universal…29 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Child PovertyMy Lords, as well as the Social Mobility Commission, the Minister could have cited the IPPR calculations that the pandemic could put 200,000 more children in poverty this year,…15 Jun 2020HANSARDBanks: Authorised Push Payment FraudMy Lords, evidence from the Financial Ombudsman Service, of which I was a director, shows a wide variation in how banks are handling this. It sees firms making decisions based on…11 Jun 2020