1.   Most important, there is an assurance that pension rights are linked to the retail prices index.

2.   The Minister suggested also that the technical arrangements for preserving pension rights will be straightforward.

3.   The price to pay for picking up the public asset should be respect for the pension rights of the public company employees.

4.   Your new employer might appear to place a disconcertingly low valuation on your old company pension rights.

5.   When occupational and state pension rights are added to marketable wealth, there is a change in the pattern of distribution.

6.   It may be difficult or impossible to establish at the date of the sale the value of the pension rights to be transferred.

7.   Britain is required to equalise pension rights between men and women.

8.   The Government has delayed responding to the need to equalise pension rights because it means equalising State retirement ages.

9.   Potentially an even bigger bombshell is about to burst on the vexed question of pension rights.