Clause 28
Pensions Bill
4:00 pm
Andrew Selous (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; South West Bedfordshire, Conservative)
I rise to speak to the two amendments, in my name and that of my hon. Friends.
I am curious as to why what will be in a compliance notice is not specified because, having looked at clause 28(3), it seems that all four paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) should be in a compliance notice. Such a notice would tell the employer by when a remedial action must be taken, what must be done, how it must be sorted out, and what would happen to him if he failed to comply with the notice. Those four components strike me as important and if a compliance notice were to be served on an employer they would want all those parts there so that they knew what to do and by why, and what would happen otherwise. I am querying the word “may”; there is a case for compliance notices being issued in a set format, covering all the points of information that I have run through.