Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme Debate
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Eleanor Laing
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Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme
Eleanor Laing Excerpts(5 years, 2 months ago)
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Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Eleanor Laing)
Order. Some important questions have been asked, and I am sure that Members want to hear the answers from the Minister.
Claire Perry
I am afraid that there is a fundamental fallacy in some of the arguments that have been advanced. I suspect that the Labour Government made the decision not to review the surplus sharing for the same reason, which is that the money that comes to the Government is then being spent to support pensioners in many ways, providing them with, for instance, free prescriptions and bus passes. It is not correct to say that the money is just sitting there.