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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Pension Schemes Bill

"There is clearly a great deal of good in the Pension Schemes Bill; that is why it went through Committee relatively easily. I do not wish to be a dog in the manger about that, but instead to recognise the good in the Bill. I shall focus on the issues …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Feb 2021
Social Security

"I thank my hon. Friend the Minister for the measured way in which he introduced the order, and I join him in thanking the staff of the Department for Work and Pensions and the jobcentres for the extraordinary way in which they have managed to handle a very difficult situation. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Feb 2021
Pensions

"I rise as chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on frozen pensions. That is a body that ought not to exist at all, but unfortunately its presence is necessary and has been for some time.

It is to the eternal shame of successive Governments that there is a group of …..."
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Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
Wednesday 4th November 2020

Asked by: Roger Gale (Conservative - Herne Bay and Sandwich)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average length of time is taken by her Department to process the mandatory reconsideration of a personal independence payment claim.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

Statistics on the average clearance time for Mandatory Reconsiderations (MR) for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) can be found in the data tables of the quarterly statistical publication ‘Personal Independence Payment: Official Statistics to July 2020” published by the Department for Work and Pensions and available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-2020

Figures for Great Britain can be found in Table 4A by month the Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) was cleared in calendar days.

Written Question
State Retirement Pensions: Females
Monday 13th July 2020

Asked by: Roger Gale (Conservative - Herne Bay and Sandwich)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an estimate of the number of job vacancies that will be created in the event that the WASPI generation of women are permitted to retire immediately and on full pension.

Answered by Guy Opperman

No such estimate has been made.

Written Question
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
Wednesday 8th May 2019

Asked by: Roger Gale (Conservative - Herne Bay and Sandwich)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons not all UK pensioners living overseas receive annual pension uprating.

Answered by Guy Opperman

Since WW2 successive Governments, Labour, the Coalition and Conservatives have had the same policy. The policy on up-rating the UK State Pension abroad is long-standing and unchanged. UK State Pensions are payable worldwide and they are up-rated for overseas residents where there is a legal requirement to do so.

The cost of up-rating State Pensions would increase by more than £3 billion over five years if payments to recipients in countries where they are not currently up-rated were increased to the rates payable had the recipients never left the UK. It is not proposed to change this policy.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Apr 2017
State Pensions: UK Expatriates

"I beg to move,

That this House notes the detrimental effect that the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 2017 will have on the lives of many expatriate UK citizens living overseas with frozen pensions; and insists that the Government take the necessary steps to withdraw those Regulations.

As chairman of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Apr 2017
State Pensions: UK Expatriates

"We shall await the Minister’s response with great interest. I am grateful to my hon. Friend.

A former constituent of mine, and a friend, now living in South Africa, wrote to me to say, “I have been looking after my wife since her stroke and increased dementia, plus incontinence now, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Apr 2017
State Pensions: UK Expatriates

"I am grateful to all hon. Members on both sides of the House who have contributed to this debate, which will have been watched by many people around the world. We are proud to live in a country that has a reputation for fairness and non-discrimination. There is an injustice, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 16 Dec 2015
Benefit Sanctions

"Order.

Motion lapsed (Standing Order No. 10(6))...."
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