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Pensions Bill [HL]

This amendment has been debated, but I want to restate that the cost of this amendment, based on the department’s figures, is £0.75 billion because we are looking at the period 2016-20. I am conscious of the business of the House, so I do not have the time to go into this, but universal credit does not match the generosity of pension credit for those who cannot re-enter the workforce in the accelerated timetable arising from the more rapid move to equalisation. I do not think that complexity is a defence against protecting the poor. I wish to test the opinion of the House. Division on Amendment 11 Contents 153; Not-Contents 194. Amendment 11 disagreed. Schedule 1 : Equalisation of and increase in pensionable age for men and women: consequential amendments Amendments 12 to 14 not moved. Clause 5 : Earnings trigger for automatic enrolment and re-enrolment Amendment 15 Clause 5 : Earnings trigger for automatic enrolment and re-enrolment Amendment 15 Moved by