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Ministerial statement on Thursday, 22 February 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Hutton of Furness.

Occupational Pensions

Statement on occupational pensions.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
457 c419-32 
Session
2006-07
Department
Department for Work and Pensions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c432 (Link to this contribution) I can give the hon. Gentleman that assurance, because we will consider all aspects of the financial ...
Chris Huhne | 457 c432 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that the Secretary of State is looking to review the financial assistance scheme....
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Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c432 (Link to this contribution) It is precisely the complexity and constitutional dimensions to the case that have now to be resolve...
David Burrowes | 457 c432 (Link to this contribution) Would it not be exceptional for the Government not only to reject the findings of the ombudsman and ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c429 (Link to this contribution) We have already done that in answer to a question from the hon. Gentleman’s boss, the right hon. Mem...
Desmond Swayne | 457 c429 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has rejected criticism of the FAS on the basis that a mere 900 payments have ...
Richard Burden | 457 c429 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s announcement, particularly what he said about costs, which, as he k...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c428 (Link to this contribution) No, it is certainly not time to look at a citizen’s pension, because the costs would be completely u...
Mike Weir | 457 c428 (Link to this contribution) One problem that we all face is the huge gulf in the figures quoted. Campaigners say that the cost o...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c429 (Link to this contribution) I agree that that is not good, but the hon. Lady needs to reflect a little more on, for example, the...
Julie Kirkbride | 457 c428-9 (Link to this contribution) I was pleased to hear the Secretary of State recognise earlier that some of these people now face se...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c428 (Link to this contribution) We are looking at all these issues in the context not only of yesterday’s High Court ruling but, mos...
Julie Morgan | 457 c428 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement, particularly his concluding remarks, and I hope that the...
Justine Greening | 457 c431 (Link to this contribution) Many young people, some of whom will be in the Public Gallery now, will be listening to this exchang...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c431 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman has come to that conclusion, because it is a million miles away f...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c431 (Link to this contribution) Again, it is not true that no financial assistance has been made available to people who have lost o...
Andy Reed | 457 c429-30 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement today, and particularly for its tone. Opposition Memb...
William Cash | 457 c430 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate my constituent, Richard Nicholl, and other brave members of the Pensions Action G...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c430 (Link to this contribution) We will try to do all the things that my hon. Friend has suggested. We will certainly continue to lo...
Lord Bellingham | 457 c430 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that the Secretary of State appears to have shifted his attitude and policy on th...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c430 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has raised an important and serious issue about the deadline for FAS applications...
Graham Stuart | 457 c431 (Link to this contribution) Like many Members, I welcome the Secretary of State’s tone, but the issue is more one of trust than ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c430 (Link to this contribution) It is very difficult to quantify the figures with the degree of precision for which the hon. Gentlem...
Terry Rooney | 457 c425 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement, and particularly for his comments on legal costs; th...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c425 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his initial comments, and I can confirm that he is right in resp...
Lord Young of Cookham | 457 c425 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the tone of the Secretary of State’s statement, but does he agree that there is still a ri...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c426 (Link to this contribution) It is certainly likely that if, and when, proposals are brought forward, there will be an opportunit...
Andrew Miller | 457 c425 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement and the approach that the Opposition spokesman has now ad...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c425 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for what he has said, and for his support. I just want to repeat to ...
Mike Penning | 457 c425 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement, and for the Government’s considerations on the mon...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c425 (Link to this contribution) I agree with a great deal of what the hon. Gentleman has said. I can assure him and the House that w...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c426 (Link to this contribution) We shall certainly try to do so. I do not think that the issue is whether compensation or financial ...
Lord Tyrie | 457 c426 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State not agree that the delay that we are now experiencing is as painful as a...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c426 (Link to this contribution) I do, and that is what I said in my statement.
Tony Wright | 457 c426-7 (Link to this contribution) I welcome very much what my right hon. Friend has said today, and the way in which he has said it. H...
David Winnick | 457 c426 (Link to this contribution) I recognise the difficulties and concerns that the Government must have in respect of how public mon...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c427 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that issue, which has been raised by a number of Members...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c427 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for what he said at the beginning of his question. As I have said, because we...
Lord Redwood | 457 c427 (Link to this contribution) When I was a Department of Trade and Industry Minister, I had an adverse finding of maladministratio...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c427 (Link to this contribution) It might be important for the record to say that the right hon. Gentleman actually rejected the ombu...
Clive Betts | 457 c427 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s commitment to reconsidering the position of those who have lost pen...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c419-20 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I want to make a statement on yesterday’s judgment on the Government’s...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 457 c420-2 (Link to this contribution) We welcome the tone at least of the last part of the Secretary of State’s statement. We welcome in p...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c422 (Link to this contribution) May I give a general welcome to what the hon. Gentleman said in response to my statement? I think th...
Derek Wyatt | 457 c422-3 (Link to this contribution) Nearly five years ago I came to the House to talk about Andrew Parr, who was one of the people in co...
David Laws | 457 c423-4 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Secretary of State would acknowledge that refusing to accept the judgments of umpire...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c424 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman prepared those comments before he had the opportunity to read my sta...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 457 c423 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, we will look carefully at all those issues, and we have done so already. That was acknowl...
Subjects
Appeals Damages Department for Work and Pensions Department of Social Security EU law Insolvency Legal costs Judgements Leaflets Maladministration Workplace pensions Pensions Misrepresentation Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration Pension funds Pension rights European Court of Justice High Court
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