Mentions:
1: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) Since my debate in June 2022, there have been three different Prime Ministers, four Secretaries of State - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) Friend the Member for Blaydon (Liz Twist) for securing the debate and for the work she has done over - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Many people state that they feel let down by the regulators and that more should have been done to ensure - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) Member for Blaydon (Liz Twist) for tabling this debate. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (LAB - Neath) carers of state pension age. - Speech Link
2: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) carers of state pension age. - Speech Link
3: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) inequality, bad for the NHS and bad for our economy. - Speech Link
4: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) state pension—they are both paid as an income replacement benefit. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) The IFS’s Deaton review on inequality reported that between 1971 and 2019 the percentage of births outside - Speech Link
2: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) parents find themselves caught up in lengthy court proceedings, which are costly both to them and to the state - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) The law is clear on pension-sharing on divorce but, in practice, it is not implemented to the extent - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Haughey, Clare (SNP - Rutherglen) Can the First Minister confirm to the WASPI women—women against state pension inequality—who are watching - Speech Link
2: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) The Scottish Government has always supported—and always will support—the WASPI women. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) Against State Pension Inequality found that thousands of women born in the 1950s are entitled to compensation - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) I will confine my observations to four issues: Windrush; the Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: McNeill, Pauline (Lab - Glasgow) I also put on record that although I did not manage to get to the WASPI—Women Against State Pension Inequality—demonstration - Speech Link
2: Gibson, Kenneth (SNP - Cunninghame North) The pension age for police officers, the fire service and the military stands at a dignified 60, or less - Speech Link
3: Clark, Katy (Lab - West Scotland) While their retirement age continues to be linked to the UK state pension age, prison officers face the - Speech Link
4: Nicoll, Audrey (SNP - Aberdeen South and North Kincardine) The UK Government must bring about pension justice for our front-line prison staff, and I lend my weight - Speech Link
Asked by: Stephen Farry (Alliance - North Down)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to meet with representatives of the Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign following the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's report into the communication of state pension age increases, published on 21 March 2024.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
In laying the report before Parliament at the end of March, the Ombudsman has brought matters to the attention of this House, and a further update to the House will be provided once the report's findings have been fully considered.
Apr. 17 2024
Source Page: Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024: Fairer Scotland Duty AssessmentFound: Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024: Fairer Scotland Duty Assessment
Mentions:
1: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) They stand alongside colleagues such as the shadow Secretary of State, my hon. - Speech Link
2: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) insurance cuts, as a policy, will entrench inequality in different parts of the United Kingdom. - Speech Link
3: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) The constituent described to me how her small monthly pension was hit by the impact of that and how unfair - Speech Link
4: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) only be achieved with a UK Labour Government working with a Welsh Labour Government and a Secretary of State - Speech Link
Hold a Public Inquiry into state pension age changes for women
- 4,999 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 100,819 - 2,947 added in the past 24hrs)
We request a Public Inquiry into their state pension age changes for women, which we believe have left many in a state of financial and mental despair. We believe the Government has had little or no consideration of the circumstances, historic inequality, mental health and wellbeing 1950s women.
Found: We believe that women affected by these changes were given inadequate notice that they would have to