Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill

My noble friend might find this helpful. We are missing the point. We are assuming that the board members will receive pensions, which is extremely unlikely. I suspect that the Bill is drafted to give the Secretary of State power to pay pensions to the chairmen and perhaps the deputy chairmen, because the chairman is often asked to commit himself or herself to two days a week and will therefore be denying themselves employment elsewhere, in which they could earn a pension. It is as simple as that. It is because the higher paid members of the board, not the ordinary board members, have to commit themselves to a reasonable amount of time, during which they could earn reasonable sums of money in the private sector with pension rights.