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Parliamentary Pensions

I have not quite addressed post-65 circumstances yet, but I understand the hon. Gentleman's point. People who retire at the conventional retirement age would be able to contribute to a pension that would only be up to two thirds of their final salary, but he says that if people continue working beyond that, they could pick that process up again. My second point is that the hon. Gentleman made the extremely good point that there must be a system that allows flexibility about the amount of money people are given if they retire on ill-health grounds, which does not treat everyone as if they were the same, because obviously they are not the same. One given lump sum or settlement would be clearly inappropriate in the different circumstances that may exist. As the hon. Gentleman mentioned, we need the flexibility to conduct a review if a person's health gets much worse, or if they miraculously get much better, either by virtue of science of by some other means. The public would not expect anything else. I hope that the House will support these eminently sensible proposals.