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Pensions Bill

My noble friend is absolutely right that the 30-year rule would help, but he is assuming that only one grandchild is concerned, that that grandchild grows up and the grandparent can then go back to work. We are talking about perhaps two grandchildren growing up or two families, with two or three daughters needing help, particularly in rural communities. We could very easily be talking about a situation where the people concerned may bring up their own child and receive HRP, manage two, three, four or five years in the labour market and then, from age 50 to age 65, provide almost continuous child care for grandchild after grandchild. My noble friend can do nothing to help them except to ensure that they go into old age without a pension of their own.