Lord Davies of Brixton

This is an important debate on an important issue. The case has been made by every speaker so far making detailed points on the policies and the problems that they create. I want…

Sure, but that is true only if the widow does not get a pension. My whole point is that that arrangement should be providing pensions and not providing capital sums to the widow.…

I have three points. First, I profoundly disagree with the noble Lord, Lord Lucas. To pin the blame just on politicians lets everyone else off scot-free. It is more like Murder on…

Yes, the noble Lord, Lord Leigh of Hurley. That was a blind spot: I am sorry. I always listen with great interest to what the noble Lord says. We take part in many of the same deb…

I start by paying tribute to the noble Lord, Lord St John of Bletso. I do not know whether he will mind me mentioning that we recently discovered that we share one thing in common…

I have just two points. First, I am perhaps the only person in the House who believes in the National Insurance Fund. I am in favour of the National Insurance Fund in principle. I…

I welcome strongly the Government’s decision to abolish the two-child limit. Scrapping it remains the single most effective step that we are taking to reduce child poverty in this…

May I just press the noble Baroness on the point she made about serious additional costs? Would she care to quantify what those serious additional costs are?

I thought I said in my earlier remarks that there will be a marginal effect: I accept that, although we do not actually know what that marginal effect will be. It is all hypotheti…

I want to contribute, by supporting the Government, a bit of sense to this debate. We have heard so much doom and gloom, but what is the reality? What impact are these measures go…

I have worked in the pension sphere for far longer than I care to remember, and so-called surpluses have been a big issue throughout. They have come and gone. Sometimes they have…

I do not mean to be unkind to the tablers of this amendment, but it is nonsense, in my view. As the noble Lord, Lord Fuller, explained, I can confirm that I am a fellow of the Ins…