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HANSARDFinance BillMy Lords, Covid-19 has changed all our lives in a way that we might have thought unimaginable a few months ago. With optimism for a V-shaped recovery receding and facing a 12.8%…17 Jul 2020HANSARDAutomatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 2020My Lords, I too speak in favour of seafarers and offshore workers continuing to be subject to automatic enrolment if they are ordinarily working within the UK, and I support the…19 May 2020HANSARDAutomatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 2020Understood—my apologies. I will leave it there.19 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: HousingMy Lords, the Statement describes the situation prior to the easing it contains. It states that life has been put on hold and that 450,000 sales have been unable to be progressed.…18 May 2020HANSARDHousing for the HomelessMy Lords, addressing the worst forms of homelessness requires that there be sufficient settled accommodation, and it certainly requires an increase in the supply of affordable…14 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: StrategyMy Lords, given that we now know that the low paid in manual jobs face a greater risk of dying from the virus than high-paid white-collar workers, does the Minister consider that…12 May 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I heard the Minister’s reply, which seemed a recipe for no action—not this year or next. Given all the hard work that has gone into developing thoughts on this, that does not seem…04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 95 in this group is in my name. It seeks to press the Minister to make three important changes to the current auto-enrolment scheme—there are some overlapping…04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, this issue has been rumbling around for far too long and it is time to try to get a solution to it, particularly, as many noble Lords have explained, because of the…04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]Can the noble Lord move the amendment?04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]The point the noble Lord makes about public sector funds is right, but in trying to make comparisons between somebody with a public sector pension and people who are not in that…04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, it will not take us long to deal with this amendment. When it was conceived as an amendment, there was a fairly grand design behind it but, as time has moved on, it has…04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I, too, support this amendment. We should congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, on the diligence with which she has persisted on this matter for quite a long…04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for her response on this matter and noble Lords who have spoken in favour of this proposition. For those who have felt unable to support it at the moment, I…04 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, we have some difficulty with this amendment. We are more than happy to put it on the agenda for a meeting, although I recall earlier sessions when I think the noble…04 Mar 2020HANSARDMesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2020I am trying to understand whether the compensation recovery mechanism produces more than, less than or the same as the money needed for the 2008 arrangements and whether there is…03 Mar 2020HANSARDMesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2020My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing these regulations. I love this debate each year here in this Room. It is incredibly powerful, compassionate and knowledgeable, and…03 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My question related to Amendment 77 and unfunded public service DB schemes where there is a requirement for prescribed conditions to be satisfied before trustees or managers can…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, this amendment goes to the heart of protecting people’s pensions. We have touched upon a number of issues surrounding the same sort of concepts during debate on the Bill…02 Mar 2020