Pension Schemes Bill [HL]

My Lords, in moving Amendment 46, I shall also speak to Amendments 47 to 49, which are in my name...

My Lords, I have added my name to these amendments in the names of my noble friends Lady Noakes a...

My Lords, I support my noble friends Lady Noakes and Lady Altmann and the strong case they have m...

Lord Naseby has withdrawn, so I call Lord Blencathra. No? I gather that there have been some prob...

My Lords, while the Bill has generally been welcomed by the pensions industry and members of pens...

The noble Baroness, Lady Sherlock, has withdrawn. Have we had any success in finding the noble Lo...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Noakes for tabling these amendments to Clause 107...

My Lords, I first thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this short debate. I was pleased t...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 50. I remind noble Lords that Members other tha...

Moved by

Lord Vaux of Harrowden

50: Clause 109, page 95, line 15, at end insert—

My Lords, in moving Amendment 50 I will also speak to Amendment 51 in my name. I thank the noble ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Vaux, for moving these two important amendments. ...

I shall be brief. I indicated that I want to speak on these amendments because I am concerned abo...

The noble Lord, Lord Vaux, has adapted his amendments to meet some of the concerns that we all ex...

My Lords, I declare my interests as in the register: I am a non-executive director of London Stoc...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Vaux, for returning to this issue. We all know th...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Vaux, for tabling these amendments to Clause 109,...

My Lords, I thank all those who have taken part in this short debate. While I do not entirely agr...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 52. I remind noble Lords that Members...

Moved by

Baroness Drake

52: Clause 118, page 105, line 9, at end insert—

“( ) R...

My Lords, Amendment 52 is in my name and those of my noble friend Lady Sherlock and the noble Bar...

My Lords, I have little to add to the wise words of the noble Baroness, Lady Drake, on Amendment ...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to each amendment in this group. The noble Baroness, Lady Altmann...

My Lords, I support all three amendments. The grouping is slightly odd, mixing the question of tr...

My Lords, as noble Lords know, I am as concerned as anyone with consumer protection. I therefore ...

My Lords, I support Amendment 52. I also support the other two amendments tabled by the noble Bar...

My Lords, I will deal first with the data issues. There are known to be problems with data qualit...

My Lords, I begin by turning to Amendment 52, tabled by the noble Baronesses, Lady Drake and Lady...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have supported Amendment 52. I say to the noble Earl that n...

I shall now put the Question. We have heard a Member taking part remotely say that they wish to d...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 53. Anyone wishing to press this or any other a...

Moved by

Lord Young of Cookham

53: Clause 118, page 106, leave out line 32

Memb...

My Lords, Amendment 53 in my name presses the Government to clarify progress on identity verifica...

My Lords, the introduction of a pension dashboard service raises major considerations of the publ...

My Lords, I want to speak briefly in support of Amendment 63. I have also added my name to Amendm...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 63 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Sherlock. ...

My Lords, I have put my name to Amendment 63 because it is vital to allow the MaPS dashboard the ...

I welcome my noble friend Lord Young’s probing amendments on verification and timing, and I look ...

I support Amendment 63 and am not voting from a garden bench. The case for this amendment has bee...

My Lords, this has been another interesting debate. Before I address the question of the dashboar...

My Lords, there was general agreement in Committee that pension scheme members should have access...

I have received no requests for noble Lords to speak, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Young.

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have taken part in this debate, not least my noble friend Lord ...

Moved by

Earl Howe

54: Clause 119, page 108, line 32, leave out “any” and insert “the...

Moved by

Earl Howe

57: Schedule 9, page 177, line 33, leave out “any” and insert “the...

Moved by

Earl Howe

60: Clause 121, page 113, line 16, leave out “any” and insert “the...

Moved by

Earl Howe

62: Clause 122, page 117, line 6, at end insert—

“(A1) The s...

I beg to move.

Amendment 63 (to Amendment 62)

Moved by

Baroness Drake

63: Clause 122, after inserted subsection (A2) insert—

...

I beg to move.

I should inform the House that if Amendment 64 is agreed, I cannot call Amendment 65.

Amend...

Moved by

Earl Howe

64: Clause 122, page 117, leave out lines 7 to 25

Member’s e...

Moved by

Earl Howe

66: Clause 122, page 117, line 25, at end insert—

“(1A) The ...

Moved by

Earl Howe

69: Clause 122, page 117, line 26, leave out “Subsection (1) is” a...

My Lords, we now come to the group consisting of Amendment 71. I remind noble Lords that Members ...

Moved by

Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted

71: Clause 123, page 118, line 4, at end inse...

My Lords, this amendment revisits the issue of open direct benefit schemes on which discussions s...

My Lords, I will add a brief footnote to the powerful case made by the noble Baroness, Lady Bowle...

My Lords, I support Amendment 71, to which I have added my name. I have little to add to the exce...

My Lords, I speak in support of Amendment 71. Given the hour, the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles of ...

My Lords, I had intended to add my name to this amendment, and I apologise that I failed to do so...

My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles, on bringing forward this amendment....

My Lords, I will confine my remarks to the impact of this amendment on the Railways Pension Schem...

My Lords, I have little to add, but I very much agree with ensuring that

“the closure of sc...

My Lords, I too welcome this amendment in the name of my noble friend Lady Bowles to help keep op...

My Lords, I strongly support my noble friend’s analysis of the one-size-fits-all regulatory threa...

My Lords, we all believe that trustees of DB schemes should have a clearly defined funding and in...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles, for her amendment, which touches on a...

My Lords, I thank all those who have spoken in this debate. I particularly thank the noble Lord, ...

Moved by

Baroness Stedman-Scott

75: Clause 124, page 118, line 33, leave out from “re...

Moved by

Baroness Stedman-Scott

81: Clause 125, page 120, line 16, at end insert—

Moved by

Baroness Stedman-Scott

85: Schedule 11, page 190, line 1, leave out from “re...