I am saying that in a whole raft of areas, no doubt under successive Governments, the Treasury has made behavioural assumptions. When I used to work in Customs and Excise, that was certainly the case when asking what would happen if the duty on whisky was put up. A whole raft of behavioural assumptions is made in policy-making and I do not think that it has been the policy to make those behavioural assumptions public. What obviously has been, and will remain, policy is to set out the impact of those behavioural changes. The noble Baroness shakes her head. Perhaps when she was a Minister behavioural assumptions were made available. My understanding is that that has not been the policy but I will go back to the Treasury and check.
Pension Schemes Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Newby
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 12 January 2015.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Pension Schemes Bill.
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