Marcus Jones
Main Page: Marcus Jones (Conservative - Nuneaton)(12 years, 11 months ago)
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Vince Cable
That was not the recommendation to which I referred. The commission also made a specific recommendation about a double number between salary and top-up to salary. For a variety of reasons, we do not feel that being quite so prescriptive is appropriate, but that was the recommendation to which I referred and which we were not able to take forward.
Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton) (Con)
Does the Secretary of State agree that the state should not control private sector pay, but empower shareholders with the information they need so that they can be active and committed company owners?
Vince Cable
That is a pithy summary of what I was trying to say, on which, as Mr Speaker ruled, I took rather too long.