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HANSARDNight-time EconomyThe night-time economy, and the hospitality sector more widely, is the beating heart of our cultural life, bringing to life the places we all call home. That is why this…20 May 2025HANSARDNight-time EconomyI think everybody in this House enjoys the proliferation of microbreweries around the country, which is why the Government are supporting draught beer and cider by knocking 1p off…20 May 2025HANSARDPensions: ExpatriatesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I thank the hon. Member for Farnham and Bordon (Gregory Stafford) for opening today’s debate, which was granted by…20 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordExactly; that is what is going on. I speak to pension funds every week who say they are looking to increase their allocation of UK assets because political stability has been…13 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordWe have discussed some of these issues in the past, and I look forward to the conversations that I am sure we will have in future, not least around the pension schemes Bill. It is…13 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordI have benefited from conversations with my hon. Friend about this topic, given his previous experience. He is completely right to set out that one of the large reasons—although…13 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordThe hon. Lady is right to say that we see higher engagement levels among young people today in investing more broadly. Whenever I go into a school sixth form, a surprising volume…13 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordI am sure that Ministers in the Department for Transport will have heard my hon. Friend’s words and that his buttering up will have the desired effect over the years to come. He…13 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordMr Speaker, I would like to associate myself with your tribute and those of other Members to Sir Roy Stone, who was a true public servant, and a servant of this House. Pensions…13 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordI will directly address two questions and then come to the overall tone of the shadow Chancellor’s remarks. There has been a debate across this House and in the wider industry…13 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordMy hon. Friend is completely right, but I would use a slightly more optimistic tone. It is now the settled consensus of the entire defined-contribution industry that this is the…13 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordI thank the hon. Member for what I think is his support for the accord—13 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordHe is nodding, so I will take that as support. He will worry that he sounds dangerously like a Liberal Democrat when he sits on the fence as much as he just did. At least the…13 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordThat was a characteristically punchy and accurate contribution by my hon. Friend, and that is the difference between this Government and some of the Opposition parties: we want to…13 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordSavers can have lots of confidence, because the pipeline is already being delivered: solar farms approved; onshore wind happening after being banned for years under the…13 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordThe job of pension trustees is absolutely to deliver for their savers and the accord today is delivering exactly that, making sure that we have diversity of asset allocations in…13 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordI thank my hon. Friend for her question. We should focus on the accord today, but the LGPS is a very important part of our pensions landscape; there are £400 billion-worth of…13 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordSome 90% of the industry, by active saver numbers, have signed up to the accord today, and the small number of large providers who have not signed up are supportive of the move…13 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The lower Thames crossing has been consented, and it is another example of this Government getting on with getting the country building again,…13 May 2025HANSARD Mansion House AccordI hear the point the right hon. Gentleman raises, and we have had those debates in this Chamber in recent months. The UK Government are doing what they need to do to invest in our…13 May 2025