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Pensions Reform

I have been listening to the hon. Gentleman’s argument and the intervention from the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South (Miss Begg). Surely people in the public sector who are paying into superannuation schemes are paying out of their salaries. The money is not coming directly from council tax, central Government or anywhere else. They happen to work in the public sector, but it is their money—their income—that they pay into superannuation schemes. Is it not a point of principle that if they have signed a contract to pay over the odds into a superannuation scheme from their own salary, they are entitled to have that contract honoured?