Pensions legislation and the process adopted to implement it is now so ‘tremendously confused' it is compounding the pension crisis, Lord Higgins has alleged.
Speaking at City forum round table event last week, Higgins of the Conservative Party says the balance between the House of Lords and the Commons, stemming back from 1997 has shifted so much since Labour came to power, it has rendered the Commons incapable of functioning properly given its loss of ability to scrutinise matters. He points, in particular, to a recent 700- page pensions Bill document which was tossed between House of Lords and the Commons as a reference for the confused culture that currently resides in parliament. Higgins said: “The process to deal with issues in the Com...
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