Is there not a problem with this, in that it leaves the Secretary of State to decide what the foreign or defence policy might be in an arbitrary way, rather than requiring pension funds to set an ethical policy in which they can say that they do not want to invest in countries where there are human rights abuses? We would still have to treat all countries equally, so they could not target one country or another, but there would be an ethical framework, and this new clause does not allow an ethical framework.
Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 22 February 2022.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords].
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