§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether, in order to encourage employers to make their own arrangements and to promote mobility of labour, he will take legislative action to make it illegal for an employer to make membership of an occupational pension scheme a condition of service.
§ Mrs. ChalkerI have been asked to reply.
My right hon. Friend has no proposals to do so but I am willing to consider alternatives to the recommendations put forward by the Occupational Pension Board in its recent report "Improved Protection for the Occupational 244W Pension Rights and Expectation of Early Leavers" (Cmnd. 8271). I welcome, therefore, representations on the subject of pension expectations and job mobility.