From the beginning, we have been clear that all accrued rights will be protected, in full.

Alexander says he does not think this is an accurate use of the term "accrued rights".

Pensions already earned (accrued rights) will be protected in full.

Once you have accrued rights based on service up to that date, no-one can take them away.

Your benefits earned through past years of service - 'accrued rights' - will be protected.

Thus the absence does not reduce accrued rights to redundancy pay or to notice entitlement.

Full-time workers became part-time workers, but had not already taken their accrued rights to paid annual leave.

These are called your "accrued rights" and they appear to be safe, as are pensions for the armed forces.

Accrued rights would also be protected, and the lowest paid protected from contributions increases.

Accrued rights are enforceable, but future obligations disappear.

- Accrued rights will be protected.

Exactly and accrued rights are NOT being altered.

A collateral purpose of coercing members to relinquish their accrued rights for the company to benefit from the surplus, was bad faith.

Accrued rights continue to be enforceable.

Accrued rights under the existing schemes at the date of an employee's transfer [Lord James Douglas-Hamilton]

A transfer representing a member's accrued rights under a registered pension scheme to another registered pension scheme (or, in certain circumstances, to an insurance company) or a qualifying recognised overseas pension scheme.

1.29pm: Labour's Clive Betts asks Alexander to confirm that switch from the RPI measure of inflation to the CPI measure when pensions are uprated will in practice affect accrued rights.

In a letter dated 12 April 2010, Webb said on behalf of the Liberal Democrats: "We are very clear that all accrued rights should be honoured: a pension promise made should be a pension promise kept.

termination for breach of contract is "prospective", not "retrospective"; i.e. repudiatory breach of contract discharges both parties from future performance of their contractual obligations, but leaves their accrued rights intact (and themselves open to damages)

This applies when scheme members are leaving contracted-out employment with the date of election is before 6 April 1997 and the scheme members' accrued rights in excess of Guaranteed Minimum Pension are being transferred to a scheme which is not contracted-out.

What is on offer is an extremely reasonable deal: low and middle-income earners getting a larger pension at retirement than they do now, all existing accrued rights being fully protected, and any worker within 10 years of retirement seeing no change in either the age they can retire or the amount they can receive."

The transfer in a single transaction of all the sums and assets held for the purposes of (or representing accrued rights under) the arrangements under the pension scheme from which the transfer is made, which relate to the member in question and at least one other member of that pension scheme.