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Pensions Bill

I thank the Minister for that reply. I know that he will say the same thing on all the amendments; I am expecting that. I remind him that Clause 20(1) says: "““The Authority may do anything it thinks appropriate for preparing for the implementation of, or for advising on the modification of, any relevant proposals””." Clearly, the authority has to have some framework within which to decide whether to do ““anything””, otherwise ““anything”” could mean anything under the sun. The amendments are trying to set an appropriate framework within which the authority should work. The Minister suggested on the previous amendment, ““It kind of knows what we are about because it can read all the stuff””. If we were setting up an authority to do things, we would give it objectives; it is curious that, just because it is set up to prepare for doing things, it does not have similar objectives. I am not going to repeat that on every group of amendment, because in some ways the Minister has said that we are on the same page in the outcome sought. It is worth rehearsing those issues, because we think that it is important that the delivery authority has those issues firmly in mind. We can have it recorded in Hansard that the Minister also thinks that it is important. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendment No. 115 not moved.]