I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his remarks. He has just said that the Government will legislate as possible; this is the opportunity to legislate. Of course, there might be a BDS Bill at some point later in the Parliament—we do not know; there will always be pressures on the legislative timeframe—but even if there were, this is the appropriate Bill to handle the situation, because the issue arose in the 2013 Act, to which this Bill is essentially the successor. I do not expect my hon. Friend to make a commitment here at the Dispatch Box—it is clearly something that we will all have to consider in the weeks ahead—but this is the moment at which to make the amendment, should the Government wish to do so in this Parliament.
Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Robert Jenrick
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 5 January 2022.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords].
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