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Pensions Bill

moved Amendment No. 103: 103: Schedule 6, page 62, line 13, leave out from ““contain”” to end of line 14 and insert ““a majority of persons who are either members or employees of the Authority”” The noble Baroness said: I shall also speak to Amendment No. 105. Paragraph 9 of Schedule 6 deals with the delivery authority forming committees. By virtue of sub-paragraph (3), at least one personon these committees, apart from advisory ones, is a member or employee of the authority. This means that the authority will set up committees to carry out its functions, over which it could lose control. My Amendment No. 103 proposes that the majority of members of these non-advisory committees, if I may use that shorthand, must be members or employees of the authority. If committees carry out functions on behalf of the authority, surely they should remain controlled. Paragraph 14 says that the authority can delegate its functions to committees. Amendment No. 105 would add a similar rider to the effect that the chairman and the majority of members of a committee carrying out a delegated function should be members of the authority. I beg to move.