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HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]I will give way.22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]I am sorry, but I must make progress. The Government have been paying particular attention to the arguments that my right hon. Friend has put forward, and I assure him that we…22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]I thank all right hon. and hon. Members who have spoken today. I appreciate the constructive way in which all Opposition parties have handled the Bill. Today’s debate has focused…22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]On the contrary, it has everything to do with BDS, because, rather than promoting co-existence, debate and dialogue, it sows hatred and alienation. There is evidence of divisive…22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]I will ensure that it is on the record. My right hon. Friend the Member for Newark (Robert Jenrick) raised the important issue of guidance for the local government pension scheme…22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]Very briefly, but I am conscious of the need to make progress.22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. I would like to make a short statement about our involvement with the devolved Administrations. Officials worked closely…22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]The cost sits with both members and employers, but the liability rests with the Exchequer in relation to the £17 billion cost of remedy. That is how this sits. I will indeed…22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]I thank my hon. Friend for what he has said, and I can confirm that we will be accepting the new clause. It will have the Government’s support this afternoon. The hon. Member for…22 Feb 2022HANSARD Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]I can confirm that the liability for this rests with the Exchequer. It will be a reform scheme-only design. [Interruption.] I will write to the right hon. Gentleman with the…22 Feb 2022HANSARDTreasuryYouth unemployment fell to 11.1% in the three months to November 2021 and is lower than it was prior to the pandemic, and in December there were half a million more employees aged…07 Feb 2022HANSARDTreasuryWe know that young people have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. I am delighted that, to date, more than 122,000 kickstart jobs have been started by young people…07 Feb 2022HANSARDSupport for Lowest-income HouseholdsI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question. He knows the high regard that I have for him. I do, however, respectfully disagree with him on these points. There is no other…01 Feb 2022HANSARDSupport for Lowest-income HouseholdsMy hon. Friend has campaigned consistently on this theme. I would certainly be very happy to have further discussions with him about it. It is worth noting, and celebrating, the…01 Feb 2022HANSARDSupport for Lowest-income HouseholdsMy hon. Friend raises an important point. The state pension and pension credit are rising by 3.1%, which is helping to protect more than 12 million pensioners from cost of living…01 Feb 2022HANSARDSupport for Lowest-income HouseholdsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question, and for the spirit in which he asks it. Over the course of the spending review we are investing £1 billion in disability-related…01 Feb 2022HANSARDSupport for Lowest-income HouseholdsI thank my hon. Friend for his question. In the week that we announced the Brexit freedoms Bill, that is a really good example of why our decision on the Government Benches to…01 Feb 2022HANSARDKickstart SchemeWe are getting on with it. I remind the hon. Gentleman that when we compare the scheme to the last Labour Government’s future jobs fund, we see that we have already comfortably…01 Feb 2022HANSARDPublic Spending: Value for MoneyI will comment specifically on some of the fraud relating to Government economic support schemes put in place during the pandemic. My colleagues and I share the anger and…01 Feb 2022HANSARDKickstart SchemeI am afraid the hon. Gentleman confuses what he is talking about. The fact that we have not hit the target is precisely a reflection of the fact that the wider economic recovery…01 Feb 2022