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HANSARDPension Schemes BillI am afraid the hon. Member has just revealed his lack of focus on what is going on. Pension schemes from around the world are investing in British private assets; it is UK…22 Apr 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillI share my right hon. Friend’s frustration about developments in the Lords on those matters, not least because some of those who voted against amendments that would have…22 Apr 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillThe truth is that there is a range of opinion among ABI members about that. However, there is agreement across the industry about the need to deliver change. I turn to some of the…22 Apr 2026HANSARDPension Schemes BillI beg to move, That this House insists on its disagreement with the Lords in their amendments 15 to 24, 27, 30 to 34, 36, 38 to 42, 83 and 88, insists on its amendments 88A and…22 Apr 2026HANSARD Alternative Measures to GDPA debate has come on to imputed rent; we can tell it is nearly 4.30 pm on a Tuesday. The hon. Member is tempting me—and I will engage with the question. What is the big picture…21 Apr 2026HANSARD Alternative Measures to GDPIt is always a pleasure to serve under you, Sir Alec. I start by congratulating the hon. Member for South Cotswolds (Dr Savage) on securing this debate and on her speech. I am…21 Apr 2026HANSARD Pension Schemes BillI am always ready to engage in exciting debates about pensions. The right hon. Member for Tonbridge (Tom Tugendhat) is right to say that far more Members should be enthused enough…15 Apr 2026HANSARD Pension Schemes BillI absolutely agree with the last point that the right hon. Member made. I am planning an extensive discursion on his wider point about investment in equities versus gilts shortly,…15 Apr 2026HANSARD Pension Schemes BillI absolutely agree with the right hon. Member’s focus on the generational challenges, but I have a slightly different view on what the biggest challenge is. The biggest issue for…15 Apr 2026HANSARD Pension Schemes BillI thank the Select Committee Chair for her intervention. The organisation she mentions has been consistently making these cases. In fact, the hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Mark…15 Apr 2026HANSARD Pension Schemes BillIf I have understood the hon. Member’s question, we are ruling out the ability for the power to be used for any purpose other than for the broad private asset class. That would…15 Apr 2026HANSARD Pension Schemes BillAs a point of principle, Madam Deputy Speaker, I never fight with you—it would end badly for everyone and I would lose every time. The Conservatives would have opposed the Bill…15 Apr 2026HANSARD Pension Schemes BillI have just explained to the hon. Member why he should be worried. He is happy to carry on with the status quo; we are not. We are going to set this out in two ways. First, we…15 Apr 2026HANSARD Pension Schemes BillNo, we have got some more. That was before Conservative Front-Bench Members—then in a less bonkers phase of life—nodded through the Bill, which they now claim is some kind of…15 Apr 2026HANSARD Pension Schemes BillYes, basically I recognise the risks that the right hon. Member raises. I think that I should now turn to the shadow Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Faversham and Mid Kent…15 Apr 2026HANSARD Pension Schemes BillFurther to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I thank the right hon. Member for Salisbury (John Glen) for his point of order. As I have already said to him, I apologise…15 Apr 2026HANSARD Pension Schemes BillI am not going to commit from the Dispatch Box to writing 50 letters, but I will happily have a conversation with my hon. Friend about it, as I always do. Turning to my hon.…15 Apr 2026HANSARD Pension Schemes BillThere are Members of this House who are drawing several pensions, and they are to be encouraged to do so, working past the state pension age and contributing with their valuable…15 Apr 2026HANSARD Pension Schemes BillLet me start by thanking Members of both Houses for their careful scrutiny of the Bill before us today. I thank Members of the other place for their amendments, which we are…15 Apr 2026HANSARD Pension Schemes BillI apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker. I shall contact the right hon. Member for Salisbury. The comments in the Westminster Hall debate are on the record.15 Apr 2026