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Most of the issues have been covered, but I was particularly struck by the issues to which other members have referred about the financial memorandum’s statement that the closest comparator is the parliamentary voting system referendum.
It is quite common for pension payments to continue when someone has died if the pension scheme has not been notified.We compare blue badge records against deceased persons.
I note that in a recent speech, according to a report on 23 January, Iain Duncan Smith, who is the United Kingdom Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, “compared his welfare reforms to the struggle to end slavery.”
I wonder whether instead of looking just at Westminster the witnesses know from their visits abroad of any examples of good practice in Scandinavian Parliaments of comparable size.
Scottish midwives who volunteered there persuaded me to visit and see for myself what was a hell on earth, but nothing could have prepared me for that visit.