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HANSARDPension Schemes BillI am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, for her support. I know that she recognises the problem that this is designed to solve and why the Government have done this. In…19 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillIt depends on how the market is structured. The decision-makers here are employers. Let us look at what happened under the Mansion House Compact, the predecessor of the accord,…19 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillIf the noble Baroness could have just a bit of patience, I am just coming to that. I ask her to bear with me for a moment. Either of the noble Baroness’s proposals to extend the…19 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillGo on. It is going to be a long day.19 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes Bill19 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, Clause 40 delivers the Government’s commitment to ensure that DC workplace pension savers benefit from the advantages that flow from scale and consolidation. The…19 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes Bill19 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillThis all comes as a package. A lot of attention is focused on this particular reserve power, but in fact it is the combination of all the elements of the Bill that we discussed in…19 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, I thank noble Lords—at least, most noble Lords—for their contributions to that little debate. It is probably worth saying at the outset what this is about. Anyone who…19 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes Bill19 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, for introducing her amendments. I covered quite a bit of this ground in my response to the previous group, which was quite…19 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillThe noble Baroness should not worry about time—it is only 3.45 pm. We have all the time in the world, so I am very happy to carry on debating this.19 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes Bill19 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Viscount, Lord Thurso, for introducing his Amendment 22. Many members of defined benefit, or DB, schemes have seen inflation erode the value…16 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes Bill16 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken this evening. I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, for her support on the principle of the shift to value…16 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes Bill16 Mar 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, my noble friend Lord Davies and the noble Viscount, Lord Thurso, for introducing their amendments. During our various…16 Mar 2026HANSARDUniversal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) BillMy Lords, I understand that, but I have looked at what the last Government spent the money on and at the results, and I do not like them, so we are going to do something…12 Mar 2026HANSARDUniversal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) BillI have given the same answer about the levels a number of times. The cap has to be reviewed by 2027. The Secretary of State will review it at the appropriate time, certainly…12 Mar 2026