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HANSARDPension 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, 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 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 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 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 2020 Bills sponsored (4)