Superannuation Bill

Lindsay Hoyle Excerpts

Tuesday 7th September 2010 Commons Chamber

Second Reading

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Lindsay Hoyle)]

I have to inform the House that Mr Speaker has selected the reasoned amendment in the name of the right hon. and learned Member for Camberwell and Peckham (Ms Harman).

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[Mr Maude]

rose—

[Mr Deputy Speaker]

Order. Before the Minister replies, may I point out that interventions should be short, with quick questions?

[Mr Maude]

The answer to the hon. Gentleman is, as I have said several times already, that this Bill is not the last word and that the additional protection for lower-paid workers has to be done by agreement. I do not want to be in a position where we design as if in some laboratory a complicated scheme to try to give protection for the lower paid, because the right way to do it is by proper negotiations and discussions with the unions—and that is exactly what is going on at the moment. As I said, that is the principal aim of the—