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HANSARD National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) BillI will come to the exact point that the hon. Gentleman raises. The main answer to his question is that we are introducing this change with a very long implementation period—it…17 Dec 2025HANSARD National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) BillI am reluctant to intervene, but I just want to pick up on two points that the hon. Member has just made. Men are much more likely to use salary sacrifice than women, so I offer…17 Dec 2025HANSARD Budget 2025: Impact on GraduatesIt is always a pleasure to serve under you in the Chair, Mr Turner. I congratulate the hon. Member for Windsor (Jack Rankin) on securing this important debate. Budget discussions,…16 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget: Work IncentivesThe forecasts accompanying the Budget set out that the Office for Budget Responsibility expects employment levels to rise in every year of this Parliament. They also set out that…09 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget: Work IncentivesThe hon. Member is right to call those things a moral and economic disgrace. Does he know who created them? It was the Conservative party opposite. Who saw a 50% rise in the…09 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe welfare state that the Conservative party created is failing, and we are changing it. Welfare spending rose three times as fast under the Conservative Government than it has…09 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsEnergy bills are too high. The Conservatives left Britain dependent on the rollercoaster of gas prices, and left families paying almost £2 billion on bills for their failed energy…09 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe have all watched the hon. Member voting with his feet by leaving the bunch of crazies that he was with before. Let us get back to what this Government are doing to drive…09 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend has been a powerful campaigner for those surpluses to be shared with the members of those pension schemes. He knows that we made an announcement at the Budget to…09 Dec 2025HANSARDPensioner PovertyTo tackle pensioner poverty, we are both increasing the state pension and running the biggest ever pension credit take-up campaign. Raising the new state pension in line with the…08 Dec 2025HANSARDPensioner PovertyI thank my hon. Friend for that important question. I, like her, have met and listened to lots of those affected by the lack of indexation on pre-1997 accruals within the PPF and…08 Dec 2025HANSARDPensioner PovertyI am always keen to work together with the Father of the House. He mentions the triple lock, but we are doing far more things to tackle pensioner poverty. There were 900,000…08 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question because it gives me a chance to bring the House’s attention to research published after the general election in 2024 but commissioned…08 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThere is nothing sad about Labour Members watching wages rise faster under this Government than they did under the Conservatives. There is nothing sad about our Back Benchers…08 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are taking a pragmatic approach to reforming pension contributions made via salary sacrifice, the costs of which are set nearly to triple to £8 billion between 2017 and the end…08 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs the Secretary of State set out to the House a few months ago, the decision to which the hon. Member refers is being retaken by the Department, and we have committed to updating…08 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman is a powerful champion for his constituents and I am sure that all hon. Members will be unhappy to hear about this case. I know that staff from the Department…08 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his brief question. Pensioner poverty halved under the last Labour Government. It went up under the previous Conservative Government, but it is…08 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for her important question. We have seen poverty rates fall less fast among people approaching the state pension age, rather than those over it. We need to…08 Dec 2025HANSARD Pension Schemes BillI do not agree with the premise of the hon. Gentleman’s question, because I think that members of the scheme he mentions will benefit from the improvement in pre-1997 indexation…03 Dec 2025