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Occupational Pensions

The answer is very clear: it was not a cross-party early-day motion. If the hon. Gentleman, for whom I have utmost respect, had troubled to talk to us before tabling his early-day motion, we might have been able to agree a slightly different wording with which we would have been content. It is unfortunate that the impression has somehow been gained by some of the pensioner groups outside the House that that did happen when it did not.