Draft Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order 2017 Debate

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Department: Department for Work and Pensions
Wednesday 8th March 2017

(7 years, 8 months ago)

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Charlie Elphicke Portrait Charlie Elphicke (Dover) (Con)
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I take issue with the tenor of the hon. Gentleman’s speech. Auto-enrolment and the need for reforms of pensions would not have been necessary if a previous Labour Government had not entirely and systematically destroyed the brilliant pension system that we used to have.

Alex Cunningham Portrait Alex Cunningham
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I do not accept the second part of the hon. Gentleman’s intervention, and as for taking issue with the general tone of my speech, I thought I was being quite conciliatory and kind to the Government on this occasion, and the Minister seems to agree, even if the hon. Gentleman does not.