§ Mr. Jim MurphyTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security when she proposes to announce the new levels of contracted-out rebates to apply from April 1999. [33141]
§ Ms HarmanI have today laid the relevant reports by the Government Actuary and myself, together with draft Orders which set the new levels of National Insurance rebates for contracted out money purchase schemes and appropriate personal pensions applicable from 6 April 1999 for the remainder of the current quinquennium ending 5 April 2002.
The Orders must be debated in both Houses before 6 April 1998 to fulfil the legislative requirement that they are made one year in advance of their effective date.