Clause 71
Pensions Bill
10:00 am
James Plaskitt (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions; Warwick and Leamington, Labour)
My understanding of the great bulk of the schemes that are currently in existence in the public sector is that they would not have a difficulty meeting the qualifying criteria, though I do not have the opportunity to go over every single conceivable little corner of the public sector to be sure about that. I have looked at the terms of all of the existing ones in which most people are enrolled and they satisfy the criteria. Now he has come back to the first of the two things he raised, I do not think the financial impact of this clause will be at all significant.