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HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]I was chair of finance at the Greater London Council at that time, and I would regularly turn up with my shares with regard to Barclays bank. When Mandela came here—some Members…22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]I declare an interest in that I am a member of the local government pension scheme. I want to address the amendments standing in my name—new clause 10 and amendments 22 and 24—but…22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]I just need the Minister to say that it will be an employer cost, not a member cost.22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]I was once, in my callow youth, an adviser to the mineworkers pension scheme, and then I was an adviser at the TUC, working with Lord Bryn Davies, who is one of our colleagues in…22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]Yes, but then I want to move on to my amendments.22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]I would also come out fairly pragmatically and say that there may be some countries that, according to the Government, were not appropriate to invest in a few years ago but now…22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]Let us be absolutely explicit. With regard to the cost control mechanism, is it the case that this will be not a member cost but an employer cost? Just nod, Minister: that is all…22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]Correspondence is not good enough. Put it on the record.22 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsCan the Minister explain why 8% is a statistical anomaly and 7% is not?07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsWill the Minister give way?07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsI completely concur. I understand those who say that if we vote against this tonight we will be accused of voting against an increase, but far from it—if we vote against it we…07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and Pensionsrose —07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsWill the Minister give way?07 Feb 2022HANSARD Social Security and PensionsI resent the premise of this debate. I resent the Government bringing forward an unamendable order on such a significant issue, because that leads to the conclusion, as the hon.…07 Feb 2022HANSARD Coronavirus Grant Schemes: FraudThis is outrageous. This is an attempt to shift the blame to everybody but the Government. Of course MPs across the House were pressing the Government for speed of action—for…18 Jan 2022HANSARDElections BillI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster and Fleetwood (Cat Smith) on the work she has done, and also my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham North (Alex Norris) on…17 Jan 2022HANSARD BBC FundingMany of us find it nauseating that the Secretary of State has come here to talk about hard-pressed families when she supported the £20 cut to universal credit. I am sure she wants…17 Jan 2022HANSARDEnvironmental Audit CommitteeI congratulate the right hon. Gentleman’s Committee, and him in particular, on the campaign he has waged over the years on the issue of the purity of our water systems. I look…13 Jan 2022HANSARDGlobal Vaccine AccessThank you, Mrs Murray. Last month, the former Prime Minister and World Health Organisation global health ambassador Gordon Brown said that the global vaccine roll-out was a “stain…13 Jan 2022HANSARDEye Health and Macular DiseaseI join others in thanking the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) for securing the debate. I congratulate him on providing a service to us all by securing so many debates on…11 Jan 2022