"My Lords, I rise to speak to these two closely related sets of regulations, which together established the new tiered system of business rates for the 2026 financial year. One determines which hereditaments fall into each multiplier band, and the other fixes the resulting liabilities for larger premises. I thank …..." Baroness Neville-Rolfe - View Speech
"My Lords, I shall speak to government Amendments 194 to 202. The Government’s letter states that the liabilities of the AWE pension scheme will no longer be pre-funded, that the assets of the scheme will be sold and that scheme members will be protected in line with the approach taken …..." Baroness Neville-Rolfe - View Speech
"My Lords, it may be that those are precedents that have been passed in legislation, but I am not clear that they have been put into this sort of Bill. The problem with the amendments is that they are a mixture of the general and the individual. That is what …..." Baroness Neville-Rolfe - View Speech
"My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Younger of Leckie in proposing a review of pension awareness and saving among young people.
When I had the honour to review the state pension age for the DWP in 2021-22, I was struck by two things that strengthened the case for …..." Baroness Neville-Rolfe - View Speech
"My Lords, as the grandmother of a baby who was born pre-term, I was very interested in this incident. As far as I could make out, it seems to have been well publicised, and those who might be affected got to know of it very quickly. Is there any evidence …..." Baroness Neville-Rolfe - View Speech
"My Lords, this Bill is deceptively small. It runs to just four pages of text and could be easily mistaken for something minor. But its consequences for working people and for long-term pension saving in particular are serious and far-reaching. We are talking about pensions, not other benefits, which the …..." Baroness Neville-Rolfe - View Speech
"My Lords, it is fair to say that I am not keen on Chapter 4 of the Bill, which appears to allow the state to trample on and prevent the establishment of smaller funds, and, if necessary, requires their assets to be moved, presumably to another fund. “Squashing new entrants” …..." Baroness Neville-Rolfe - View Speech