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Mark Lazarowicz
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(13 years, 7 months ago)
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Steve Webb
My hon. Friend raises an important issue. When people have saved for a pension, it is vital that they get the best possible pension out of it, and that may not be from the company they have saved with. That is why I very much welcome today’s Association of British Insurers code, which will be mandatory for members of the ABI and will make it much more natural that shopping around becomes the default, rather than something that one has actively to seek out.
Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith) (Lab/Co-op)
What are the Government’s plans for the future, if any, of the Department’s contract with Atos?
Chris Grayling
The Department’s contract with Atos runs until 2015. We have taken no decisions about how the contracting structure will work beyond that point. Consistency of provision was necessary through the incapacity benefit reassessment process, but we will not take decisions on the detailed structure of the renewal of that contract for some while to come.