National Insurance Contributions Bill
10:45 am
Rob Marris (PPS (Rt Hon Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State), Northern Ireland Office; Wolverhampton South West, Labour)
Dealing with the anomaly that the Minister referred to in her response to my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, North, I wonder why the alignment of the upper earnings limit and the upper accrual point is being done in two stages. Prima facie, it occurs to me that, after the first step of that alignment, which is effective from April 2008 until April 2009, when the second full step of alignment will be made, the anomaly to which the Minister refers will continue. If that is the case, why?