Part of Pensions Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 5:00 pm on 29 January 2008.
Andrew Selous
Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)
5:00,
29 January 2008
I am grateful to the Minister. The Amendment was probing. The debate has been useful, not least for the contribution of my hon. Friend the Member for Bromsgrove, who raised some real issues, particularly about sole traders and unincorporated businesses, where there are small family issues. Think about where, if the premises have gone, the widow keeps all the documents. Are they to go up in the loft or something? There is perhaps a need for some further consultation with very small business organisations on such issues—perhaps the records could be lodged in some central place, so that the widow would not have to keep them in her own home, if her husband’s business no longer exists. There are some practical issues like that. However, I have accepted the points that the Minister made. I am grateful to him for the explanations. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
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