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Pensions Bill

I did not move Amendment No. 112L. This is Amendment No. 112M. Paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 1 deals with people who are not to be taken as having a conflict of interest for the purposes of appointment to the trustee corporation. It mentions people, "““being or having previously been engaged, on behalf of the relevant authority, in activities … relating to … pension schemes””." The relevant authority is the Secretary of State. I am not at all sure what ““engaged on behalf of”” means, or who those people are. The purpose of Amendment No. 112M is to ensure that we are not disallowing people who were or who had previously been engaged on behalf of the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority in the same way as those engaged on behalf of the Secretary of State. I thought that, in addition, there might not be much difference between people employed by the Secretary of State or PADA and those ““engaged on behalf of”” them so I have proposed a new sub-paragraph (6)(c) to deal with that in Amendment No. 112N. Perhaps the Minister will shed more light on paragraph 2(6) and the people it is targeting. I beg to move.