The hon. Gentleman refers to a report of that meeting, but I can give him another account, because I was there—it was my meeting. No concrete proposals were made at that stage, and certainly not proposals that could in any way remotely or realistically redistribute benefits away from higher earners, whose payments are anyway capped under the scheme that we have agreed, towards the lower paid and particularly the lowest paid, who are much better protected now than they were under the previous Labour Government's scheme of last February.
Superannuation Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Maude of Horsham
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 14 December 2010.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Superannuation Bill.
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