I do not want to get into that political debate because there might be some merit in what the noble Lord said. One of the core issues is that a default pension scheme was not chosen but I do not want to drift there. However, it does not matter who should have dealt with the minimum standards for qualifying schemes and when. If the Government are going to take to themselves the power to say, on behalf of millions of people in this country, “We will automatically transfer”, then the governance standards required in the scheme receiving the pots transferred under those terms have to be pretty high, do they not?
Pensions Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Drake
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 15 January 2014.
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and
Committee proceeding on Pensions Bill.
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