MPs debate transitional state pension arrangements for women

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On Wednesday 24 February from approximately 3.30pm, MPs will debate transitional state pension arrangements for women.

Watch the debate on Parliament TV.



Further information

The House of Commons Library has produced a research briefing for the forthcoming debate, 'Increases in the State Pension age for women born in the 1950s'.

For more general information, please take a look at the House of Commons Library research briefing titled 'The new State Pension - transitional questions'.

The House of Commons Library produces research briefings which provide in-depth and impartial analysis of all major pieces of legislation, as well as many areas of policy, or cover frequently asked questions and topical issues.

Paul_Herring

Here we go again...

westv

This is the first time I've heard anything about this..




..... :rotfl::rotfl:

jem16

So another waste of time debate as Opposition Day debates have a vote which is non-binding on the government as far as I'm aware.

My prediction - Labour/SNP MPs regurgitating Waspi sob stories with fiction presented as fact, no costed solutions by any opposition MP and nothing achieved at the end.

jem16

westv wrote: »

This is the first time I've heard anything about this..




..... :rotfl::rotfl:

Did you not receive a personal letter about it?

bmm78

jem16 wrote: »

So another waste of time debate as Opposition Day debates have a vote which is non-binding on the government as far as I'm aware.

My understanding too is that votes on opposition day motions are not binding.

The impression from the Labour MPs is that they are trying to put it on the government to put forward proposals. They are doing their best to avoid admitting that they are focusing on the 2011 Act, and that realistically means-testing would be part of any workable solution. There is far more political mileage in continuing the charade that they are fighting for all 1950s women.

I hope I'm wrong, but all signs are pointing towards another meaningless exercise in grandstanding and cringeworthy references to waspis stinging.

Pollycat

Did anyone watch the debate?

Pollycat

Did anyone watch the debate?

Was it more of the 'same old, same old'?

bowlhead99

https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/Hansard/commons/by-date/
Click on yesterday's date and the transcript is there half way down.

PensionTech

It's making me angry just to read it.

[Vara]: ... a reduction in the time period from two years to 18 months at a cost of £1.1 billion. That shows that the Government were listening to the concerns of Members and responded to them at the time.

Carolyn Harris (Swansea East) (Lab): Exactly how much of that money went to the women concerned?

Mr Vara: The hon. Lady needs to appreciate that the concept of dealing with pensions and money is that the concession was made—

Carolyn Harris: I know the answer. How much?

Mr Vara: That concession was made by the taxpayer—[Interruption.] It was made by the taxpayer, and the total cost was £1.1 billion—

Carolyn Harris: How much?

ALL OF IT, THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS

*Edit: What feels like many hours later results in this:

Angela Rayner: I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I hope that the Minister will answer that question. Just over a £1 billion was put in. According to my research, over half of that was for men.

So I finally understand: they're angry that men disadvantaged by exactly the same measures got some benefit of the transitional arrangements. And if they got more than half, it is because they accrued more state pension in the first place and therefore were missing out, on average, more than women by the 2011 accelerated increases to SPA.

Inequality, indeed.

jem16

Pollycat wrote: »

Did anyone watch the debate?

Yes.

Was it more of the 'same old, same old'?

I'm afraid so.