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Pensions Bill [HL]

We are in danger of sitting here devising IT systems, which is great fun but rather time-consuming. The word ““awareness”” is more than modest, because making people aware in the present IT environment is a substantial requirement due to the privacy around the data concerned. It would not be possible. I come back to my earlier point: in the new world of universal credit, the way in which that information is used will change quite dramatically and things may become possible. However, this is not the way to do it. In the present context, it is practical neither technologically nor politically.