Clause 15
Pensions Bill
2:15 pm
Andrew Selous (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; South West Bedfordshire, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 3, in clause 15, page 7, line 22, leave out ‘or to provide any information’.
We are going so fast that maybe the Committee will not have to listen to me for as long as it thought it would have to at the start of the proceedings.
The purpose of the amendment is to check that the wording in subsection (2)(b) would not prevent an employer or a personal account scheme from finding out from an employee their date of birth and national insurance number and any other relevant information that they might need to put them into the scheme. As subsection (2)(b) is worded, it would seem that the employee, bizarrely perhaps, might be able to refuse to give such information. I am sure that I am probably wrong and that the Minister will leap to show me some other part of the Bill where it states that employees can be required to give basic information about who they are, their date of birth and so on. If they could refuse to give that information it would obviously cause complications and I therefore seek the Minister’s reassurance.