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Pensions Bill

The Minister has again referred to the little diagram in the document placed in the House of Commons Library—not, I should add, the House of Lords Library—but it is not a project plan. It is a million miles from a project plan but we are invited to believe that it will all be all right in 2012. The Minister referred to phased auto-enrolment, but that cannot even begin unless the personal accounts scheme is up and running because there is no sensible way of phasing other than having the whole scheme operational. It seems to me that the Minister is hoping that PADA will deliver. He refers to annual reports and accounts being available to Parliament but those will not say anything about delivery; we know that. All the documents that have been produced so far are so unspecific as to be barely worth the paper that they are written on. We will have some time during the Summer Recess to progress this issue and I hope that the Minister will be able to procure some more detailed information. This does not require the breaching of commercial confidentiality but it does require information to be in the public domain. It is not enough for private meetings to take place, because many people are interested in the detailed outworking of this policy. I said at the outset that my amendment was probing. I have probed and found the Government wanting but, for today, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.