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HANSARDPension 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, there are three amendments in this group. Amendment 78, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, focuses on the evidence of a member’s spouse’s consent when a…02 Mar 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I agree entirely with what has been said about the need to communicate and the basis on which to do so. I simply raise that, in 2018, we had extensive discussions on the…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, in moving Amendment 1 I will speak also to Amendment 34. The latter seeks to insert into the regulations’ objectives the promotion of DB schemes. Amendment 1 adds as one…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for that full reply. We never intended to press the amendments anyway. As I said at the start, it is an opportunity to have a discussion about where the…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for that. I stress, in agreeing about the success of auto-enrolment, that it was started off by a raw junior Minister in the DWP getting that early…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]This has been a good debate. I think we are minded to support this measure. I am not very clear in my mind as to precisely how Royal Mail is tackling this issue at the moment, and…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I move Amendment 3 on behalf of my noble friend Lady Drake, whose expertise noble Lords will see shining through this presentation. Collective money purchase schemes…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]The noble Lord, Lord Sharkey, has made a powerful case on these provisions and we look to support him. There must at least be a strong reason to say why they cannot be pared down…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, we should thank the noble Lord, Lord Young, for bringing this amendment which, as he said, mirrors other aspects of pensions legislation. I was unclear whether this sits…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I have put my name to this amendment for the clear reasons that have just been stated. There should be a continuing obligation to make such a judgment, because, between…24 Feb 2020HANSARDPension Schemes Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the Minister for her introduction of the Bill. It is her first pension Bill and we wish her well. I welcome the open approach that she has signified and the…28 Jan 2020HANSARDQueen’s SpeechMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, and I applaud her campaign. Recent years have seen a number of key changes to the UK pensions…22 Oct 2019HANSARDPersonal Independence PaymentsMy Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating an Answer to a UQ concerning a landmark judgment of the Supreme Court. The judgment, as we have heard, is to be welcomed and will mean…23 Jul 2019HANSARDUniversal Credit: Managed MigrationMy Lords—23 Jul 2019HANSARDUniversal Credit: Managed MigrationDoes the Minister accept that this Government were not the first to understand the importance of getting people into work? If she goes back just a few years in history to previous…23 Jul 2019HANSARDTrade UnionsMy Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Jordan on introducing this debate and on the powerful way in which he expressed the issues. It is welcome to hear about trade union…18 Jul 2019