Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 8 October 2007.
Willie Rennie
Shadow Minister, Defence
2:30,
8 October 2007
As the Minister will be aware, more than 120,000 people work for companies that have gone out of business leaving insufficient money in their pension funds. When will he agree that the Government's compensation scheme should be bolstered to ensure that those workers receive the same compensation as is available under the Pension Protection Fund?
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