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HANSARDBudget ResolutionsWill the hon. Lady give way?27 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsIt is a pleasure to close today’s debate, and I thank all Members for their contributions, including my hon. Friends the Members for North Warwickshire and Bedworth (Rachel…27 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsWhy is that then?27 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsIt is coming down.27 Nov 2025HANSARDBudget ResolutionsWho did the borrowing?27 Nov 2025HANSARD Budget ResolutionsIt will fall every year!26 Nov 2025HANSARD Budget ResolutionsYour ending.26 Nov 2025HANSARD Pension Investment in UK EquitiesHe may not have been paid at all. His focus at the beginning of his remarks on growth and one of its key enablers, investment, was right. If we stepped back and forced ourselves…25 Nov 2025HANSARD Pension Investment in UK EquitiesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Stringer. I will indeed leave several minutes for the winding-up speech. Like everyone else, I begin by congratulating the right…25 Nov 2025HANSARD Pension Investment in UK EquitiesI am not sure that I fully understood, so I am not going to commit to agreeing. Remember that the capital gains on shares in equity ISAs—investment ISAs—receive tax relief in…25 Nov 2025HANSARD Pension Investment in UK EquitiesI am. I will just gently say that many people, when discussing the reasons for that, point to a policy of Brexit delivered without any ideas about how it should be delivered in a…25 Nov 2025HANSARDDraft Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) (Extension to Unconnected Multiple Employer Schemes and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2025I thank the hon. Members for Wyre Forest and for Horsham for their consensual approach and the clarity of their support for what is a development of CDC schemes that has had good…24 Nov 2025HANSARDDraft Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) (Extension to Unconnected Multiple Employer Schemes and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2025I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) (Extension to Unconnected Multiple Employer Schemes and…24 Nov 2025HANSARDAnnually Managed Expenditure Budgets IncreaseI would like to notify the House that the Department for Work and Pensions has obtained approval from His Majesty’s Treasury for an increase of £1,610,000,000 to non-voted…12 Nov 2025HANSARDFund Advance for Cash Paid in to Social Fund: ContingenciesI would like to notify the House that the Department for Work and Pensions has obtained approval for an advance from the Contingencies Fund of £1,610,000,000 The voted cash…12 Nov 2025HANSARDRegional Economic Growth: Pension FundsAt the heart of this Government’s pension reforms is the goal of bigger and better pension schemes. We are legislating for that in the Pension Schemes Bill by requiring all local…04 Nov 2025HANSARDRegional Economic Growth: Pension FundsI can reassure the hon. Member that we are scrapping the attitude of the Conservative party, which blocked any building from happening anywhere in this country year after year.…04 Nov 2025HANSARDRegional Economic Growth: Pension FundsMy hon. Friend is always a powerful advocate, both for the fast-growing companies in his constituency and for the right pension policy for the UK as a whole, as we saw when he sat…04 Nov 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe previous Labour Government cut child poverty significantly, and so will this one.04 Nov 2025HANSARDRegional Economic Growth: Pension FundsI thank the hon. Member for his question. I agree with where he started, but unfortunately he then went on to praise some of the work done under the last Government, when we did…04 Nov 2025