Pensions Bill
1:00 pm
Nigel Waterson (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; Eastbourne, Conservative)
On a point of order, Mrs. Anderson. It is a great pleasure to have you back in the Chair. You were in the Chair on 29 January when I raised in the Committee the issue of the Government’s promised amendments on the financial assistance scheme. In the light of this morning’s Court of Appeal judgment—the Government lost, again, and were heavily criticised by the Lords Justices—it is particularly relevant that we find out how the drafting is coming along.
While I am about it, could I also ask where we are with the draft regulations? Any would be nice. I do not think that we have seen a single line of draft regulations, yet the Bill is peppered with clauses calling for regulations. Perhaps the Minister could help me out as I have given him prior warning of this point of order.