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Pensions Bill

Debate on bills on Monday, 14 May 2007, in the House of Lords, led by Lord McKenzie of Luton. The answering member was Lord Skelmersdale.
Pensions Bill. Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

692 c11-94 

Session

2006-07

Legislative stage

Second reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Sheikh | 692 c55-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest: I am the chairman and chief executive of an insurance broking and f...
Baroness Miller of Hendon | 692 c52-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is to my surprise that I find myself involved in this Bill because pensions are not a s...

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Lord Turner of Ecchinswell | 692 c46-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it will come as no surprise that I speak in favour of the Bill as it is in large part devo...
Baroness Turner of Camden | 692 c50-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to participate in this Second Reading debate. In doing so I decl...
Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market | 692 c41-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, who is a fund of knowledge on ...
Lord Addington | 692 c45-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my preparation for this debate seems rapidly to have been made irrelevant by the previous ...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 692 c35-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the Bill. Above all it contains the long-awaited recognition—if not yet quite fa...
Lord Fowler | 692 c28-32 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that the Minister is reassured by all the ex-Ministers taking part in this debate: ...
Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 692 c32-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the speeches that we have heard so far show what a high level of pension literacy there is...
Baroness Greengross | 692 c24-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start by declaring an interest as president of the Pensions Policy Institute and congrat...
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay | 692 c21-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare my interest as a pension fund investment manager for the past 30 years. I remind...
Lord Rosser | 692 c26-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I had not intended to say anything about the dividend tax credit, but given that the issue...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 692 c11-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. The Bill implements the most ambi...
Lord Skelmersdale | 692 c17-21 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the House will be grateful to the Minister for introducing the Bill so comprehensively—or ...
Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde | 692 c56-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, welcome the Bill, which is the subject of enormous consensus in both Houses and in...
Lord Freeman | 692 c59-61 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Dean, and to have listened to other no...
Lord Blackwell | 692 c69-72 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in making my contribution, I should draw attention to my interest as director of a life as...
Baroness O'Cathain | 692 c72-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Bill, when published in November 2006, was described by the Government as legislation ...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 692 c61-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare my interest as chairman of Beachcroft Regulatory Consulting and the other entrie...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 692 c63-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am glad to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, in this preliminary celebration of his birt...
Baroness Noakes | 692 c82-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Kirkwood. We have one thing in common: nei...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 692 c86-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start by thanking all noble Lords who have participated in this debate, which has been w...
Viscount Trenchard | 692 c76-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am pleased that your Lordships’ House has this opportunity to debate the Bill today. Whi...
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope | 692 c80-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Viscount, Lord Trenchard. Estimations of the Bi...
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay | 692 c87 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Turner, quoted a figure of 2.5 per cent. In my mind it is 2.2 per cen...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 692 c87-94 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, 2 per cent is the figure I have, but I will write to the noble Lord if the figure is diffe...
Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 692 c37-41 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I believe this is the fifth such Bill since that of 1994-95. Subsequent Bills, to my pleas...

Legislation

Pensions Bill 2006-07

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