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Pensions Reform

Will the Secretary of State investigate an alarming practice involving occupational pensions? Overseas companies, such as Parsons Engineering and EMC Engineering in the United States, are effectively defrauding their British pensioners by contriving an arrangement whereby they temporarily liquidate a British subsidiary, expunge their pension liabilities, offload them on to the British taxpayer and resume normal business, including the winning of large Government contracts.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
446 c1661-2 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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