Clause 17
Pensions Bill
2:15 pm
James Plaskitt (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions; Warwick and Leamington, Labour)
I shall now demonstrate that I share in the hon. Gentleman’s enthusiasm for the clause. I begin by cautioning him about praying in aid the late President Calvin Coolidge. He should remember that when that President died—in 1923, I believe—his death was reported to a dinner party, and the response was, “How could they tell?”