Mr Nigel Forman, former MP, Carshalton and Wallington

We need your help

Please take a minute to donate to TheyWorkForYou so we can bring you voting summaries like this for years to come.

If everyone who visited TheyWorkForYou donated just £1, we’d reach our crowdfunding target in less than 3 days.

Donate now

Bill Presented: Pensions 13 Mar 1997

I shall try to be fairly brief, in order not to trespass on others' time. I welcome this timely and interesting debate. Having sat through all of it so far, I have found all the speeches interesting, and have learnt a great deal already. It is good for the House as a whole to have effective opportunities to influence the development of long-term policies, and I hope that the usual channels...
Bill Presented: Pensions 13 Mar 1997

I am not sure what proportion of the age cohort that I have mentioned is well-off according to my hon. Friend's definition. We would need to have a long discussion about what constitutes being well-off. In the context of large sums of public expenditure, I would prefer to see this approach to looking after a deserving cohort in our population in preference to some other uses of comparable...
Bill Presented: Pensions 13 Mar 1997

Does the hon. Gentleman, in his analogy with the travel industry and a failed holiday, mean to suggest that the pension providers should chip in collectively to compensate, or the taxpayer should do so?