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Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted to ask Her Majesty's Government why the Financial Reporting Council stated to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee, in evidence taken on 22 July 2014, that government lawyers had “concluded that they agreed with” “legal advice from Martin Moore QC who [had] concluded almost exactly the opposite of what [George Bompas QC for the Local Authorities Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF)] had concluded”; and what assessment they have made of the compatibility of that statement with correspondence dated 3 December 2015, obtained from the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy (BIS) following a Freedom of Information Act request (BEIS/FOI2016/07497), in which a BIS official stated that “We have never said that the views [of the LAPFF] are incorrect and may be disregarded. … Ultimately, whether the views of the LAPFF are incorrect would be a matter for the courts".  HL5281

Question HL5281: tabled on 31 January 2018 and due for answer by 14 February 2018

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Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted to ask Her Majesty's Government why the Financial Reporting Council stated to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee, in evidence taken on 22 July 2014, that government lawyers had “concluded that they agreed with” “legal advice from Martin Moore QC who [had] concluded almost exactly the opposite of what [George Bompas QC for the Local Authorities Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF)] had concluded”; and what assessment they have made of the compatibility of that statement with correspondence dated 3 December 2015, obtained from the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy (BIS) following a Freedom of Information Act request (BEIS/FOI2016/07497), in which a BIS official stated that “We have never said that the views [of the LAPFF] are incorrect and may be disregarded. … Ultimately, whether the views of the LAPFF are incorrect would be a matter for the courts".  HL5281
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