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CPI/RPI Pensions Uprating

I am sorry to interrupt my hon. Friend again, but as hon. Members said from a sedentary position, ““That was a dissenting judge””, let me quote a second judge, who said that he accepted the submission of Mr Beloff QC for the Police Negotiating Board claimants on the basis that, on any fair reading of the evidence, the need for deficit reduction was the driver and that the other merits of CPI were essentially deployed in order publicly to justify the switch.