On 23rd March 2026, the House of Lords debated amendments to the Pension Schemes Bill, and a Bishop took part in votes on these amendments:
Votes: Pension Schemes Bill
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Votes: Pension Schemes Bill
On 19th March 2026, the House of Lords debated the Pension Schemes Bill. Votes were held on amendments to the bill, in which Bishops took part:
Pension Schemes Bill: Bishop of Hereford supports amendments on trust management
On 19th March 2026, the Bishop of Hereford spoke in support of an amendment to the Pension Schemes Bill tabled by Baroness Noakes on allowing Master Trusts which deliver good investment performance to be excluded from the scale requirements of the bill, raising the example of faith-based funds:
The Lord Bishop of Hereford: My Lords, I speak in favour of Amendment 55, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes. There is a questionable theory of change in the Bill—that bigger pension schemes are necessarily better, suggesting the minimum scale of £25 billion. While scale certainly creates advantages, Australian experience suggests that funds can be run at less than this size and still provide value and good outcomes for members. However, concentrating the market into a few megafunds introduces a new system of risk, of schemes that become too big to fail and so are effectively the state’s problem.
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On 16th March 2026, the House of Lords debated the Pension Schemes Bill. Votes were held on amendments to the bill, in which a Bishop took part:
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