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HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I want to ask a couple of questions so that the Minister does not need to come back to us twice. My noble friend Lady Drake powerfully picked up the points on…02 Mar 2020HANSARDUniversal CreditMy Lords, may I ask the Minister something quite specific? What plans does DWP have to deal with the outbreak of coronavirus? For example, can people on zero-hours contracts who…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I want to ask a question before the Minister comes back on this. In her reply, she gave a rather forceful defence of the current situation and directed the Committee’s…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to the three amendments in my name in this group and respond to the others. Amendment 39 in my name, and that of my noble friend Lady Drake, would, as she…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I do not want to say very much, but I have a couple of questions on the back of what the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, has said. Can the Minister tell the Committee a…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]Excellent. In that case, I am trying to relate that to New Section 238A(5)(c), to be introduced by Clause 118(2), on page 105 of the Bill. It states that requirements prescribed…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I do not think I will start at that point. I will not add much. I had a lovely speech prepared, but it was much less good than some of the speeches we have heard…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, that had better not happen too soon, though, because there might be nothing to see for a while. I am very grateful to the Minister for his thorough response, even if…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, my noble friend Lady Drake has made a compelling case for the importance of this issue as well as giving us a helpful strategic overview of the state of the long-term…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, the Committee should thank the noble Lords, Lord Vaux and Lord Balfe, for having enabled this debate. One gets a high quality of debate on pension Bills; it is very well…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I realise that my questions were quite detailed, so could I ask the Minister to look at the record and write to me to answer each of them in turn? Could I encourage her to draw on…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I can add little to that careful explanation of the amendment; I know a lot more than I did five minutes ago. However, as the Minister responds, perhaps she could tell…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]Can we try to narrow the point of difference? The Minister is often being given briefings which cover points with which no one disagrees. To interpret her last answer to me, the…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, these amendments offer a good opportunity to explore whether the penalties in the Bill are of the right kind and scale. I hope the Minister will take this opportunity to…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I want to pursue a couple of points. I am a simple soul compared to many around the table who can come back to the noble Baroness on the detail. However, I think that…26 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I think this is a language question. The problem that my noble friend Lady Drake raised at Second Reading and which we are trying to raise here is not about a capital buffer to…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]Would the Minister be kind enough to write in any case, clarifying the helpful points that she has made here? They came in bits, so it might be useful to have a note setting them…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, for raising this issue and for starting so gently with us—we look forward to seeing where she will take us in…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]So could it never be the case that in the event of a triggering event, such as a wind-up, an employer pulling out or an employer downsizing, money would have to come from members’…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]May I, too, seek clarification? I was not entirely sure what the Minister was saying about where the money could come from for a buffer. I think I understood her to say that the…24 Feb 2020