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Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Act 2009 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2009

If the noble Lord seriously thinks that what I said was sexist, frankly that is just political correctness gone mad. It was a positive encouragement. I am bound to say, since he takes that ridiculous attitude, that the flow of paper coming from his officials showed quite clearly that they knew far more about what was going on than he did. Perhaps I am being unfair, but that is a ridiculous reaction and I hope that, on reflection, he withdraws it. I do not expect the noble Lord necessarily to know now, but I ask him to undertake to write to me about what the employer—that is, the Scottish taxpayer—contribution is expected to be when the new scheme comes in. The cost of public sector pensions is a matter of great public interest and I hope that he will take his responses a bit more seriously and undertake to write to me with that information.