An encyclopedia of responses to the Pension Schemes Bill

An encyclopedia of responses to our Pension Schemes Bill.

I think “our” is right, it does not belong to the pension industry (though sometimes I thought it did).The Pension Schemes Bill is a precursor to an Act which should make a real difference to the way ordinary people get paid a pension, especially if they work in a job that has a worker’s pension. Of course not everyone will be in a Pension Scheme and those who aren’t will need to wait for progress from the Pensions Commission but for now, the Bill is the job in the hand.

This blog is simply a list of the 13 meetings plus one I did when I found out the General Commission had got a day of meetings sorted out. The titles are linked to my blog and each blog has links to the videos of the sessions.

The introductory blog

The full list of attendees. Everyone turned up and most events had two “witnesses”. There were some organisations I thought would be there who weren’t, most notably the master trusts run by consultants. But Parliament is a tremendous draw! Here then are the blogs on each session in the order they spoke over one day, this is not the order that I watched them or blogged on them!

Pensions UK and ABI kick off a day of pensions in Parliament

TPR and FCA are very polite at Parliament’s General Committee

Member voice in Pension Schemes Bill? Jack Jones of TUC – Christopher Brooks of- Age UK

L&G and Aviva argue for Australia as the “silver bullet” for the Pension Schemes Bill

Lunch

LGPS – smooth but missing tricks with those in and out of Government.

Torsten Bell asks PMI and SPP to “reflect on the consistency” of their arguments.

Scale will drive value for member’s money say Nest and People’s in Parliament

Director of Public Affairs at Phoenix on his own in Parliament

The Michelle and Morten show at parliament- impressive but to the point?

The capacity for DC pensions to invest productively; Curry/Wright at parliament

Sainsbury and Monk argue to parliament for a troubled group of pensioners over 73.

Elwell and Border to Coast show Parliament LGPS at its best.

An angry and animated Torsten Bell discusses parts of his Pension Schemes Bill

13 blogs – 23 witnesses and a lot of questions. I hope that those who have an interest in the subjects belonging to the various speakers will enjoy my takes and that we can look back at this day as something that nudged the bill a little way along the Roadmap.