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Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

John Butterfill: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that many of those who took out Equitable Life policies did so in order that they would not be a burden on their families or the state in old age? That has been frustrated.

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

John Butterfill: The hon. Gentleman will know from my previous interventions on the subject that many of my constituents, including members of my own family, have been affected. Does he agree, however, that it is strange that the Government should still hang on to some vestige of a means test for people who have suffered so badly? During the banking crisis, they did not means-test those who might have lost...

Business of the House: Standing Orders etc. (Machinery of Government Changes) (25 Jun 2009) has video

John Butterfill: The retirement age is simply a target set by the scheme. If a member sought to retire before that date, they would suffer an actuarial diminution in their pension. That is the way it always works with such schemes, but the move to 67-years-old, which I have suggested, is in line with what we are doing on national insurance-based pensions, whose starting age will go up over the years to 68. We...

Business of the House: Standing Orders etc. (Machinery of Government Changes) (25 Jun 2009) has video

John Butterfill: In the debate so far, there has been a lot of conjecture and of looking back to the past, and I wish to try to put it into context. There was indeed a considerable period during which the Treasury did not contribute the correct amount to the parliamentary scheme. If one looks back to the previous valuation that was conducted by the Government Actuary, one clearly sees that the deficit was...

Business of the House: Standing Orders etc. (Machinery of Government Changes) (25 Jun 2009) has video

John Butterfill: I think I do. May I come to that in due course? I shall try to be helpful to the hon. Gentleman, and if he does not understand when I explain it then, I shall have to apologise to him at that time. A very substantial Government contribution was necessary to bring a deficit back in line with where it should have been. It arose from the failure to contribute the correct amount, as originally...

Business of the House: Standing Orders etc. (Machinery of Government Changes) (25 Jun 2009) has video

John Butterfill: It is my understanding that Members affected by the change would not be able to continue making contributions, but their rights under the scheme would continue to be safeguarded. The only change for my hon. Friend would be that if he wished to continue saving for his retirement, he would be unable to do it through the parliamentary scheme but there would be opportunities for him to do so...

Business of the House: Standing Orders etc. (Machinery of Government Changes) (25 Jun 2009) has video

John Butterfill: My hon. Friend is right. We face the problem that the Government have made a proposal that is neither fish nor fowl. It does not deal with the long-term problem nor correctly anticipate what might come out of the SSRB. The motion is a stop-gap that probably need not have been tabled at all. The whole thing could have been left until we received the SSRB report. It is impossible to imagine...

Business of the House: Standing Orders etc. (Machinery of Government Changes) (25 Jun 2009) has video

John Butterfill: rose—

Equitable Life (24 Jun 2009)

John Butterfill: Does my hon. Friend agree that that would give the Government an opportunity to explain to the House and the nation why they believe that depositors in Northern Rock and other failed banks are more worthy of support than the long-term savers in Equitable Life?

Equitable Life (24 Jun 2009)

John Butterfill: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the present position not only undermines people's faith in their ability to invest for their future, but significantly undermines the office of the ombudsman and the public's belief that they may obtain some redress for wrongdoing by going to the ombudsman? We have a brave ombudsman, and she should have had better recognition.

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Manchester City Council Bill [ Lords] and Bournemouth Borough Council Bill [ Lords] (21 Apr 2009) has video

John Butterfill: Does my hon. Friend accept that the Durham study observes that circumstances will vary considerably from borough to borough, and, rather than recommending national legislation covering the whole area, states that it will be up to individual boroughs to present and justify its own proposals? Does he not agree that, in the case of the two Bills whose revival we are now considering, the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Manchester City Council Bill [ Lords] and Bournemouth Borough Council Bill [ Lords] (21 Apr 2009) has video

John Butterfill: My hon. Friend has already done so.

Written Answers — Treasury: Royal Bank of Scotland: Pensions (1 Apr 2009)

John Butterfill: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of the amount paid by the Government to the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been allocated to the RBS pension scheme; what estimate he has made of the current deficit of the RBS pension scheme; whether Sir Fred Goodwin has commuted any part of his pension entitlement into a lump sum; and if he will make a statement.

[Sir John Butterfill in the Chair] — A Surveillance Society? (19 Mar 2009)

John Butterfill: Order. I would be grateful if the hon. Gentleman did not proceed down that line, because it is not within the terms of reference of this debate. Nor are future policy statements from any of the political parties represented here part of this debate. We are debating the Select Committee report.

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: The Economy (18 Mar 2009) has video

John Butterfill: Will the right hon. Lady give way?

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: The Economy (18 Mar 2009) has video

John Butterfill: Will the Chief Secretary to the Treasury give way?

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: The Economy (18 Mar 2009) has video

John Butterfill: May I raise a different subject with the right hon. Lady, namely the impact that the changes in the discount rate are having on pension schemes? The deficit arising from reductions on the stock exchange is dwarfed by the deficit arising from changes in the discount rate. People are now technically much more in deficit than they were. That is creating a problem for the pensions regulator. It...

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: The Economy (18 Mar 2009) has video

John Butterfill: Does my hon. Friend agree that it is very worrying that one of Bournemouth's leading construction and engineering companies has written to me saying that it has tried to get one of these guaranteed loans, but the banks will accede to that only if the directors give a personal guarantee? That negates the whole objective of guaranteed loans, does it not?

Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment): New Clause 4 — Disability living allowance for blind claimants (17 Mar 2009) has video

John Butterfill: When I entered the House in 1983, there was no mobility allowance for blind people, who were not regarded as having a sufficient defect. The fact that they could walk for 25 yd disqualified them entirely from any form of mobility allowance. They did not necessarily know where they were walking—they might be walking into danger—but still they were excluded. I first became aware of...

[Sir John Butterfill in the Chair] — Carers (26 Feb 2009)

John Butterfill: I congratulate the hon. Member on what I thought was an excellent debate on a fascinating subject. If any hon. Members are ever in Bournemouth, I urge them to visit the Youth Cancer Trust, of which I am president and a leading fundraiser. It provides wonderful respite care for young people with cancer, many of whom have terminal conditions. Sitting adjourned without Question put ( Standing...