All 2 Debates between Angela Eagle and Nick Clegg

Fixed-term Parliaments Bill

Debate between Angela Eagle and Nick Clegg
Monday 13th September 2010

(14 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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I would like to make progress. I have given way plenty.

Angela Eagle Portrait Maria Eagle
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rose—

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Angela Eagle and Nick Clegg
Tuesday 22nd June 2010

(14 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Angela Eagle Portrait Ms Angela Eagle (Wallasey) (Lab)
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Will the Deputy Prime Minister tell the House what the average size of a public sector pension in the civil service is as we speak, so that we can understand what he means by “gold-plated”?

Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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That is a matter for the Budget. As the Chancellor of the Exchequer has already announced, a former Secretary of State for Defence will be providing a review of public sector pensions. I think it is right to look at the fundamental balance between pension entitlements in the private sector, which have been cut back and have changed very dramatically—many people in the private sector, too, have been working shorter hours and taking, in effect, pay cuts—and the pension entitlements due to those in the public sector. It is the fair thing to do to look at pensions in the round. That is what this Government will do and what the hon. Lady’s Government failed to do for more than a decade.