State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]
9:30 am
Mr Ian McCartney (Minister for pensions, Department for Work and Pensions; Makerfield, Labour)
Nothing that was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday or in his pre-Budget statement will affect the structure of the Bill or any matters relating to it. If there had been, the Government would have had to table amendments to the Bill. As the Committee will notice, we have tabled only one small technical amendment. We can rest assured that the job of the hon. Member for Daventry (Mr. Boswell) as Opposition spokesman has not been made any harder by changes that were announced in the Budget statement yesterday.