Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Prime Minister, if she will make it her policy to appoint a Government tsar for elderly people with responsibility for (a) protecting the rights of pensioners, (b) combating ageism in society and (c) the provision of services to pensioners.

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the Rt Hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Amber Rudd) and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the Rt Hon. Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock), are responsible for a wide range of issues affecting older people