I know Christmas is coming when my desk starts to creak under the mass of government papers scattered over it. Civil servants are clearly incentivised to clear their desks before the year end, and they do that by covering mine.
Key A-Day proposals regularly arrived just before Christmas, the Pre-Budget Report surfaces in early December and in the last couple of years we’ve had the Pensions Commission report and the Government follow-ups – the Pensions Bill and the White Paper – appearing in the month before Christmas. I can just about cope with these. What overwhelms me is the mass of other official publications that come along at this time of year. To take just a selection of those currently gathering dust, I have The Gender Impact of Pensions Reform (62 pages), Financial Incentives to save for Retirement (89 p...
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