Part of Pension Schemes Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:45 pm on 4th November 2014.
The shadow Minister says glibly, “Why don’t they just merge,” but I wonder whether he has any sense of the cost of such mergers. The other question is: who will they merge with? If there is a small, contract-based DC pension scheme linked to an employer over here and a completely different one over there, will we need lonely hearts adverts to match them up?