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Pensions Bill

The Government have a clear commitment to the policy that I have set out. There is no ““get out of jail free”” card. We have put in place a package of measures that requires that this measure be put in place. We are not going to jeopardise everything that we have put in place in order not to make this change; that is complete nonsense. The change is a key component of our reforms, it is something that we will deliver, it is something of which Labour will be proud, and it is something that the hon. Gentleman's party would never have done unless we had committed ourselves to doing it first.