Pension Funds

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Security – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 2 Mawrth 1992.

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Photo of Mr Tony Newton Mr Tony Newton , Braintree 12:00, 2 Mawrth 1992

To take the latter point first, if my hon. Friend looks at many, perhaps all, of the Maxwell pension fund trustee bodies, he will find that they were split 50:50—there was employee representation. I do not think that that would necessarily solve the problem. I cannot go beyond what I have said, except to make it clear once again that if and when it is clear that a further legislative change will materially assist in ensuring that this sort of thing does not happen again, we will be ready to make it. But there is still a great lack of clarity and we are not prepared to pretend that we know the answer, thereby running the risk of causing at least as much damage as we do good.