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Pensions Bill

I am grateful to the Minister, and I am sure that the Pensions Action Group will be partially grateful. As the Minister has explained, if the recipients should have been paid at the time when the 10 per cent tax rate was operating, they will have to claim—that claim, under the normal government rules, will have to be validated—before they get a tax rebate. It is a rather strange way of operating, but I am afraid that from the Government’s point of view I must agree with the Minister that this is a proper administrative method to achieve the objective that he and I have sought to accomplish, so I am not going to press the amendment in any way.