Industrial Action

Meg Hillier Excerpts

Wednesday 30th November 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. It is also absurd to suppose that we can accommodate everyone unless questions and answers are significantly shorter.

[Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch) (Lab/Co-op)]

The Minister has consistently refused to address the issue of low-paid part-time workers and the extra contribution they will have to make on a pro rata basis. Does he deny that those people—many of them the lowest-paid women working in the public sector—will be more affected than others?

[Mr Maude]

I have to remind the hon. Lady that the basis on which we have made these arrangements is precisely the same as the basis on which the Government of whom she was a member was planning to reform, and indeed reforming, public sector pensions.