Clause 71
Pensions Bill
10:00 am
James Plaskitt (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions; Warwick and Leamington, Labour)
I would seek some clarification from the hon. Gentleman. He may wish to intervene on me again. There are two issues he may be getting at, and while I listened carefully to what he said, it was not quite clear which of those two issues it was. One would be the potential implication if he sees the clause resulting somehow in additional auto-enrolment into schemes. I am not sure if he does mean that, because all of the existing public sector schemes will satisfy the qualifying criteria, or whether he means the cost to the exchequer of revisions to public sector pension as a result of the reforms that have taken place. If he wants to intervene I might be able to be more assistance to him.