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.
Pensions Reform
Proceeding contribution from
Vincent Cable
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 25 May 2006.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Pensions Reform.
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2005-06
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