Clause 1 - Pension and compensation schemes: armed and reserve forces
Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Bill
2:45 pm
Mr Ivor Caplin (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Defence; Hove, Labour)
I hear what the hon. Gentleman says. If I may say so, this is part of a rerun of what we had in the House on 22 January when we debated in detail the issue of enabling legislation as against the other issues. Will he address the point that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I made to him and his colleagues about changes that it will be necessary to make to pension schemes? Two or three changes a year are
made to the current pension scheme through secondary legislation to enable the scheme to be up to date. Does he propose that we make no changes at all to the pension scheme unless we can find primary legislation slots?