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National Insurance Contributions Bill

Before the hon. Gentleman moves too far away from the question of SERPS and represents history in a format that I do not recognise at all, may I tell him that my father was a blue-collar engineer for many years and still regards his investment in SERPS in the early '70s and throughout his working life as one of the best that he made in his entire life? He would be the first to take issue with the hon. Gentleman, as he regards the mis-selling to people to come out of that scheme in the '80s and '90s as one of the worst pieces of financial advice that people of his generation ever received.