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Pensions Bill

With all this talk of tax, I cannot resist getting up to the Dispatch Box. Does the Minister accept the proposition of the noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, which seemed to me to be perfectly reasonable? She said that if a scheme could be designed that neutralised the tax advantages that accrued to not taking the retirement fund in the originally envisaged form—that is, retirement income—the amendments in the name of my noble friend Lord Hunt would be acceptable. If so, there is a model involving alternatively secured pensions, which my noble friend Lord Skelmersdale has just raised, although many do not find the model particularly attractive. Would the Government accept the amendments if those tax arrangements were embedded into my noble friend’s amendments?