"Can I be the first on the Government side of the House to warmly welcome the announcement that my hon. Friend has just made? It makes eminent sense to postpone this decision for one year on the basis of proper evidence and facts. His supported housing review will report at …..." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech
"I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate. He seems to be implying that rural constituencies such as his and mine suffer more delays than urban constituencies. Has he been able to conduct any research into this, because one would assume that it is more difficult to employ …..." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech
"I am grateful to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies, and will try very hard to conform to your stricture; in fact, my speech will last less than five minutes. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Beverley and Holderness (Graham Stuart) on securing this important debate, and I …..." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech
"I am sure that the hon. Lady was at the Motor Neurone Disease Association gathering yesterday. Les Halpin, a constituent of mine, had motor neurone disease. He told me that he had got a death sentence of between six and two years. It is just that simple. It is a …..." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech
"I am grateful to you, Mr Robertson, and to Mr Speaker for giving me the opportunity to raise the matter of the AEA Technology pension scheme, following the company’s pre-pack administration in 2012. I am also grateful to the Minister, my parliamentary neighbour, for being here to respond to the …..." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech
"My hon. Friend has made his point cogently. I will return to the matter of compensation later in my speech.
Once part of the new scheme, members were encouraged to transfer all accrued pension service from the UKAEA scheme, by a leaflet presented as impartial advice from the Government Actuary’s …..." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech
"My hon. Friend makes a really potent point, which I will come on to later in my speech.
People had not been warned of the risks by the official leaflets that they received. The AEA Technology pension scheme received an initial injection of cash from its mother scheme, the UKAEA …..." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech
"As I will explain in a minute, it was partly wrong advice at the time and partly the fact that the subsequent company went into a pre-pack.
As I was saying, the proposed transfer to the PPF means that the scheme would not be equivalent to the UKAEA scheme, as …..." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech
"I understand, and I agree with my right hon. Friend’s point. My point was that, at the time of transfer, the scheme was in surplus. Subsequently, the actuarial valuation proved that insufficient money had been transferred from the mother scheme to the daughter scheme. If insufficient money was transferred, the …..." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech
"I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that announcement, which I think affected scheme members will warmly welcome. I mentioned one other matter: being contracted out from the state pension scheme. Given what has happened to the poor people involved, is there any change that can be made, …..." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech