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Pensions Bill

I thank the Minister for giving way. We all heard the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Leicestershire (David Taylor) that the group who will inevitably lose out the most are older pensioners, because for all sorts of reasons they will not see the benefit of the retying of the earnings link. Is there some possibility, given the surplus in the national insurance fund, of targeting that older group, not necessarily through the Bill? The Government ought to be considering that group. I wonder what my hon. and learned Friend has to say about that.