Torsten Bell

Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I thank the right hon. Member for Salisbury (John Glen) for his point of order. As I have already said to him, I apologise fo…

No, I am going to finish. Let us be reasonable. Maybe Conservative Front Benchers just needed some time to think about it. What happened at Third Reading? On that occasion we had…

No, we have got some more. That was before Conservative Front-Bench Members—then in a less bonkers phase of life—nodded through the Bill, which they now claim is some kind of end-…

As a point of principle, Madam Deputy Speaker, I never fight with you—it would end badly for everyone and I would lose every time. The Conservatives would have opposed the Bill ev…

Yes, basically I recognise the risks that the right hon. Member raises. I think that I should now turn to the shadow Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Faversham and Mid Kent…

There are Members of this House who are drawing several pensions, and they are to be encouraged to do so, working past the state pension age and contributing with their valuable e…

I am not going to commit from the Dispatch Box to writing 50 letters, but I will happily have a conversation with my hon. Friend about it, as I always do. Turning to my hon. Frien…

I absolutely agree with the last point that the right hon. Member made. I am planning an extensive discursion on his wider point about investment in equities versus gilts shortly,…

I thank the Select Committee Chair for her intervention. The organisation she mentions has been consistently making these cases. In fact, the hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Mark Gar…

I apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker. I shall contact the right hon. Member for Salisbury. The comments in the Westminster Hall debate are on the record.

I have just explained to the hon. Member why he should be worried. He is happy to carry on with the status quo; we are not. We are going to set this out in two ways. First, we wil…

I am always ready to engage in exciting debates about pensions. The right hon. Member for Tonbridge (Tom Tugendhat) is right to say that far more Members should be enthused enough…