Clause 71
Pensions Bill
10:00 am
Andrew Selous (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; South West Bedfordshire, Conservative)
I want to take the opportunity in the stand part debate to ask the Minister what estimates, if any, the Government have made about the cost to their own payroll of the provisions in the Bill. There is also the issue of local Government staff, who are obviously not in Crown employment, and that of bonuses to Crown employees, in which form considerable sums are paid from time to time, which we know will be subject to the 3 per cent. employer contribution.
It may be that I have missed it. I looked through the impact assessment quite carefully, to see if I could determine the Bill’s impact on the Exchequer as far as Crown employees are concerned. I appreciate that it is a few years off. I am not looking for detailed figures down to the last pounds and pence, but it would be useful to know that some of the clever people in the Treasury or elsewhere, to whom my hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne often refers, are at least running their slide rules across the Bill’s implications for the public purse.