Pension Schemes Bill [Lords]
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2019-21Legislative stage
Second readingChamber / Committee
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Thursday, 16 July 2020
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I beg to move, that the Bill be now read a Second time.
Pensions are a fundamental part of ...
My constituents in Norfolk are passionate about climate change. They want to have safe and sustai...
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My hon. Friend has one of the constituencies with the highest number of pensioners in the country...
I welcome the Bill, and part 4 in particular, including the bit that my right hon. Friend has jus...
The Bill will require the pension schemes to provide all the data that they have available, so th...
We welcome this part of the Bill in particular. We support informing savers about their savings l...
Our aim is to empower consumers through dashboards and the Government believe that they are best ...
I welcome the Bill, particularly the part that my right hon. Friend is referring to at present. S...
My hon. Friend is right to say that dashboards could encourage more people to consider consolidat...
Does the Minister agree that the responsibility for pension scheme trustees goes further than jus...
I understand exactly the point my hon. Friend makes. My understanding is that the Financial Condu...
I welcome this measure in the Bill, reflecting changes in the other place. As the Secretary of St...
I know that the right hon. Gentleman and his Select Committee are looking at this matter carefull...
I welcome the intervention from the Chair of the Select Committee. During the passage of the Fina...
My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has just told me he will share ...
I am grateful to be called to speak in this Second Reading debate. Since I became the shadow Secr...
First, I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and, in particular, the Under-S...
Exactly, Mr Speaker—at least. I was referring to people who are starting to have to think serious...
I just want to pick up on those points. The right hon. Lady is making some powerful arguments, an...
The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. We should highlight the excellent work of some of the trad...
It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for South Northamptonshire (Andrea Leadsom), who...
It is a pleasure to speak in the debate on this excellent Bill, and I think that I echo most of t...
I hesitate to interrupt my hon. Friend’s flow, but there is an ongoing consultation on illiquids ...
I am grateful to the Minister—perhaps he will submit my views to those consultations. This is abo...
As has already been widely said, there is much to welcome in this Bill. Some important changes we...
I am grateful to the Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee with whom I have had, I thin...
I am extremely grateful to the Minister for those points and for the work that he has done, the r...
It is a great pleasure to follow the Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee. This is an incredi...
To address that point, the Government were clearly waiting for the industry to volunteer the prov...
I am grateful to the Minister for clarifying that and, again, I welcome the provision to compel p...
Pensions are often the biggest pot of money that anyone will have. They hold the promise of futur...
The measures in the Bill could transform how we view and engage with pensions, and I welcome the ...
Diolch, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to contribute to this very important debate, which I th...
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for putting on the record my knowledge of mid-Wales and suppo...
That is a very kind offer from the Minister and I will take him up on it.
Achieving net zer...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Ceredigion (Ben Lake) and to hear about all the fa...
This is the first time that I have seen the Pensions Minister since his sad loss. I just want to ...
The hon. Gentleman is making some very good points that I would like to add to as someone who has...
That is a good point. I think surveys have been undertaken that show that younger people from the...
Let me try to clarify the legitimate point raised by the hon. Gentleman and also the flipside in ...
I am grateful to the Minister and acknowledge the points that he has made. I just think that ther...
I welcome the Bill, which is a milestone in the country’s journey to a safer, better and greener ...
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for what she is saying, but on what Mr Mark Carney has said, she ...
I welcome what the Minister says, and I did not want in any way to undermine the provision in the...
As my hon. Friend the Member for Airdrie and Shotts (Neil Gray) set out earlier, there is a great...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Gordon (Richard Thomson), who made a lot of import...
I take what the hon. Gentleman says, and I do not disagree. I understand that commercial dashboar...
I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, and I ask the Minister to comment on that in hi...
As a financial planner for many years, I confirm that for a large majority of the UK population t...
It is an honour to follow the self-confessed pension geek and guru that is my hon. Friend the Mem...
Past performance is no indication of future guaranteed performance. The small print says so quite...
If I wrote a headline for this Bill, it would be something along the lines of, “If you want to sa...
I will not be speaking for as long as I did yesterday in the Adjournment debate. I will just say ...
First, I express my thanks to Members of the other place for introducing the Bill and for their w...
Those who built Britain deserve nothing less than security and dignity in retirement. Pensions is...
This is an important Bill for millions of everyday people: those who have already retired and tho...
It is great to hear the Minister speak up for the good people of Tredegar, my home town. I accept...
I will come to dashboards in more detail. I am happy to discuss this with the hon. Gentleman indi...
I thank the Minister for giving way. I want to say at the outset how pleased I am to see him in h...
I have already engaged in extensive discussions, but I would be delighted to continue to do so bo...