Member

Some 30 local councils, including many that are administering authorities, have passed a motion or issued a statement committing to support Local Government Pension Scheme divestment from companies enabling, for example, violations of international law by the Israeli Government. I ask my noble friend the Minister to accept the power that this amendment offers: it would enable the Secretary of State to make regulations preventing pension scheme investment in situations that would or could put the UK in breach of its international obligations, or to devise a similar power to like effects.