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Part of Paye – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 5 March 2012.

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Photo of Tristram Hunt Tristram Hunt Labour, Stoke-on-Trent Central 2:30, 5 March 2012

As you know, Mr Speaker, the Wedgwood museum in Stoke-on-Trent is one of the greatest museums in the world and is facing the liquidation of its collection due to faulty pension legislation. The problem lies with the 2008 occupational pension schemes regulation and the last man standing principle, which leaves a solvent employer liable for the whole of the deficit in a multi-employer scheme. That was never meant to apply to charitable collections. Will the Minister review that legislation before we sacrifice more of our national heritage to the lawyers?