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David Mowat Excerpts
Monday 26th January 2015

(9 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mark Harper Portrait Mr Harper
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As the hon. Lady will know, this Wednesday I shall publish some properly verified statistics. I shall also engage in a lengthy session before the Work and Pensions Committee, when I shall set out the facts in full, as I have been requested to do.

David Mowat Portrait David Mowat (Warrington South) (Con)
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The Independent Project Board, which was set up by the Office of Fair Trading, recently established that more than £8 billion-worth of private pension assets were subject to charges of between 2% and 3%. That makes it almost impossible for such schemes to grow. Will the Minister tell us what action he will take to deal with that?