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Pension Schemes Bill

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Hollis of Heigham (Labour) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 27 January 2015. It occurred during Debate on bills on Pension Schemes Bill.

Would the Minister mind expanding a little on this? He, or certainly his colleagues, will know that as a result of cuts by the MoJ, CABs have lost 60% of their funding that has been going into legal aid. To my knowledge, this means that CABs have substantially restricted their hours, they are often unavailable on the telephone and they are offering a very reduced and spartan service, particularly in rural areas, where, at the same time, individuals cannot access through broadband any of the websites that TPAS and so on may go on to produce. Is the Minister saying that there will be enough funding, over and beyond paying the CAB advisers £18,000 a year or whatever after their training, to keep CABs open at full hours, rather than simply to mount the skeleton service that is all they can afford at the moment, thanks to the cuts by his colleague, the right honourable Chris Grayling?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
759 c157 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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