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Pension Schemes Bill

Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bills on Monday, 12 January 2015, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Newby.
Lords committee stage second day. Clauses 46 to 85 agreed to, with clauses 48, 51, 55, 56, 60, 61, 66, 67, 70, 72 to 74, 80, 81, 84 agreed to as amended. Schedules 3 and 4 agreed to as amended. Schedule 5 agreed to. Bill reported with amendments (HL Bill 79). (Part 2 of 2.)
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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
758 cc584-635 
Session
2014-15
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Committee stage
Procedure
New clauses
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House of Lords chamber
Pension Schemes Bill 2014-15. Brought from the Commons.
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Bills
House of Lords
Pension Schemes Bill
Monday, 12 January 2015
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Lords
Pension Schemes Bill 2014-15. As amended in Committee.
Monday, 12 January 2015
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Deposited Paper DEP2015-0067
Monday, 19 January 2015
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c584 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

31: Schedule 3, page 65, line 2, after “scheme” i...

Baroness Greengross | 758 c584 (Link to this contribution)

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Baroness Greengross

34: Schedule 3, page 65, line 17, at end insert—

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Baroness Greengross | 758 cc584-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will take all the amendments in my name together. At Second Reading, I welcomed the o...

Lord Best | 758 cc585-590 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, my name is down in support of these amendments from the noble Baroness, Lady Greengross...

Lord German | 758 c591 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise to support the remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Best. In doing so, I declare my i...

Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 758 c591 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I would like to ask the Minister a question which is triggered by the important issues ...

Lord Newby | 758 cc591-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Greengross, for giving me the chance via the ...

Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 758 c593 (Link to this contribution)

The point is that housing benefit is the one benefit that continues in its current form both befo...

Lord Newby | 758 c595 (Link to this contribution)

My understanding is that that is not the intention, but I shall write to the noble Baroness to cl...

Baroness Greengross | 758 c595 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his very comprehensive reply. I also thank the noble Lords, Lo...

Lord Bradley | 758 c595 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Bradley

36: Schedule 3, page 66, line 10, at end insert—

“( ) mus...

Lord Bradley | 758 cc595-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will be brief because we covered a significant amount of the areas to which this amen...

Lord Newby | 758 cc596-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Bradley, sought a number of assurances about the funding of the gu...

Lord Bradley | 758 c597 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the Minister for his response. I certainly would have liked to be a fly on the w...

Lord Bradley | 758 c597 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bradley

40A: Schedule 3, page 71, line 40, at end insert—

“( ) Th...

Lord Bradley | 758 cc597-600 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this amendment is on the specific issue of second line of defence. We have had some deb...

Baroness Drake | 758 cc599-602 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this amendment sets out a duty on the Financial Conduct Authority to protect savers acc...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 758 c602 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support the amendment and have added my name to it. As we have heard, it is about pla...

Lord Newby | 758 cc602-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken on this amendment, and perhaps particularly the...

Lord Bradley | 758 c604 (Link to this contribution)

First, I thank my noble friends Lady Drake and Lord McKenzie for their excellent contributions, w...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c604 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

41: Schedule 3, page 74, leave out line 35 and in...

Lord Bradley | 758 c604 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bradley

44A: Clause 48, page 20, line 16, leave out “appropriate indepe...

Lord Bradley | 758 c605 (Link to this contribution)

In moving this amendment to Clause 48, I will soon be moving back to government Amendments 45 and...

Baroness Fookes | 758 c605 (Link to this contribution)

Perhaps I may interpolate. The groupings list is slightly in the wrong order. I have been followi...

Lord Bradley | 758 cc605-6 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for that clarification as, I am sure, is the whole Committee. In moving Amendment 4...

Baroness Drake | 758 c606 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I had not intended to speak on this amendment but I should like to support my noble fri...

Lord Newby | 758 cc606-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, these amendments give expression to the recommendations of the Delegated Powers and Reg...

Lord Bradley | 758 c608 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the Minister for that detailed and rapid response to the amendments. It will req...

Lord Newby | 758 c609 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Newby

45: Clause 48, page 20, line 20, after “acquiring” insert “a righ...

Lord Newby | 758 c609 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, at Second Reading my noble friend Lord Bourne explained that there was a need to define...

Lord McAvoy | 758 c610 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his explanation of the amendments. “Challenging”is is one of t...

Lord Newby | 758 c610 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I agree with the noble Lord that the amendments are very technical at one level. Howeve...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c610 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

46: Clause 48, page 20, line 21, at end insert—

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 cc610-1 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

49: Clause 51, page 22, line 10, after “acquiring...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c611 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

51: Clause 55, page 25, line 1, after “pension” i...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c611 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I now turn to a further group of amendments which make minor changes to the clauses dea...

Lord McAvoy | 758 c611 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his succinct exposition of the amendments. These are more in...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c611 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

52: Clause 56, page 25, line 17, leave out “or”

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c612 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

54: After Clause 59, insert the following new Cla...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 cc612-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this group of amendments makes a number of small consequential amendments, all designed...

Lord McAvoy | 758 c613 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I make the point about minor and technical amendments again. We will study them careful...

Lord Bradley | 758 c613 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Bradley

54A: After Clause 59, insert the following new Clause—

“D...

Lord Bradley | 758 cc613-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, having listened to the Government’s amendments, I am tempted to say that this one is mi...

Baroness Drake | 758 cc615-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, from April 2015, when people reach the age of 55, they will be able to access their def...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 cc617-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Bradley, for moving the amendment and the noble Baroness, ...

Lord Bradley | 758 c618 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for his response and the noble Baroness, Lady Drake, for her very important ...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c618 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

55: Clause 60, page 27, line 18, after “pension” ...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c619 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

56: Clause 61, page 27, line 36, leave out “or”

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c619 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

58: After Clause 64, insert the following new Cla...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 cc619-621 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

59: Schedule 4, page 78, line 17, at end insert—<...

Lord Newby | 758 c621 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Newby

87: Clause 66, page 30, line 46, leave out “subsection” and inser...

Lord Newby | 758 c622 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the purpose of Amendments 87, 88 and 89, which amend Clause 66, is to improve the draft...

Lord McAvoy | 758 c622 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his exposition. He sold me when he mentioned Scotland, so I th...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 cc622-3 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

88: Clause 66, page 31, line 5, leave out subsect...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c623 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

90: Clause 67, page 34, leave out lines 1 to 12

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 cc623-4 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

94: Clause 69, page 37, line 31, leave out “subse...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c624 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

97: Clause 70, page 40, line 1, at end insert “a ...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c624 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

98: Clause 72, page 40, line 35, after “scheme” i...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c624 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

99: Clause 73, page 41, line 2, after “scheme” in...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 cc624-5 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

100: Clause 74, page 41, line 34, at end insert—<...

Lord Balfe | 758 c625 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Balfe

104: After Clause 79, insert the following new Clause—

“Pen...

Lord Balfe | 758 cc625-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I welcome the opportunity of being able to speak to this proposed extra clause at the e...

Lord Monks | 758 c626 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare an interest as the president of BALPA. I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Ba...

Lord Balfe | 758 c627 (Link to this contribution)

Did the noble Lord not hear my other speech?

Lord Monks | 758 c627 (Link to this contribution)

I am sorry, I did not, but this one made for a nice change and I commend that example to the rest...

Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe | 758 cc627-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I want to make a brief comment on this amendment since I am a non-executive director of...

Lord Balfe | 758 c628 (Link to this contribution)

Is it true that the PPF currently has a surplus of £2.43 billion, out of which we are asking that...

Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe | 758 c628 (Link to this contribution)

I do not think I should enter into a conversation about that and I do not think it is really rele...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 758 cc628-630 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Balfe, for giving us an opportunity to air this issue this...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 cc629-632 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Balfe for so eloquently moving this amendment, and other n...

Lord Balfe | 758 c631 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for that reply, and I am glad that we have aired this problem. It often seem...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c631 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

106: Clause 80, page 45, line 4, leave out “The S...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 cc631-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, Clause 80 provides a power to enable the Secretary of State or the Treasury to make con...

Lord McAvoy | 758 c633 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his exposition. Somebody must have told him about my Irish gra...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c633 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

107: Clause 80, page 45, line 7, after “any” inse...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c634 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

109: Clause 81, page 45, line 15, leave out subse...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 c634 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

112: After Clause 81, insert the following new Cl...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 758 cc634-5 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

114: Clause 84, page 46, line 29, leave out parag...

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