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Pensions Bill

I am extremely grateful to my noble friend Lord Fowler for his speech in response to my amendment. I was somewhat surprised by the last point that the Minister made. At Question Time today, the third Question was about the Olympics; the noble Lord was clearly jumping fences before he had arrived at them, which is probably a bad habit, certainly for a hurdler. Perhaps he has never been a hurdler; I do not know. It is all very well having little dribs and drabs of information scattered in miscellaneous reports, but that is no substitute for collating them. I accept the Minister’s point about having such a report every five years, but I do not accept the fact that it is not needed because of the plethora of information that is already available and which he has committed himself to continuing to make available. I will consider whether to go further with the amendment. In the mean time, I beg leave to withdraw it. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.