VoteClimate: Pensions Bill - 17th June 2013

Pensions Bill - 17th June 2013

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Pensions Bill.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2013-06-17/debates/13061715000001/PensionsBill

21:11 David Mowat (Warrington South) (Con)

I would like there to be more enforced simplicity. We should look at what the Department of Energy and Climate Change has done with electricity and gas charges. It has insisted that bands should be brought in so that there is comparability and consumers can say, “I’ll go with them” rather than being swamped in a myriad of complexity. Pensions are massively more material to the well-being of most people than utility bills, yet they are massively more complex. Perhaps we could consider standard charges and standard comparisons of the annuity market, so that when people choose an annuity they are much more able to make a reasoned decision. The Cooper reforms in Australia are an example of that, and I would like us to move down that route.

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