State Pension Age: Women

I thank my hon. Friend for her contribution. As parliamentarians, we are all extremely frustrated...

Does my hon. Friend agree that our constituents look to us and to this place to get action, and t...

That is exactly the situation we are in, and it is really sad—it upsets me, and it is frustrating...

I congratulate the hon. Lady on bringing the issue to the House for consideration. She has been p...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution. Gower has approximately 5,600 women in this posi...

My hon. Friend is being empathetic and humane in her statement. There are nearly 6,000 WASPI wome...

I do agree, as I have been knocking on doors and met people who are in nursing and teaching, as I...

I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing the debate. If there were a free vote tomorrow, there wo...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution, as it reinforces my point that we are here to ge...

First, let me congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. There are 30,000 WASPI women i...

My hon. Friend is absolutely spot on. Loneliness and mobility are big issues for all people. I fe...

Or no notice at all.

Or even no notice at all—my hon. Friend took the works out of my mouth. That is just not acceptab...

My hon. Friend is making an impassioned, compelling and informed case. We have all had letters fr...

My hon. Friend makes a good and compelling point that I shall talk about in a moment. The UN spec...

Does my hon. Friend agree with the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, who said of another group ...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, because that is exactly the point. This is so wrong...

It is worth putting on record that that suggestion was so offensive to many of the women who have...

I thank my hon. Friend for her comments. That is exactly where we are, and it is just wrong. The ...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

It would be a pleasure.

The hon. Lady is most gracious and kind in giving way. This is a very important point. Many peopl...

The hon. Gentleman makes a very valid point. When the Women and Equalities Committee took evidenc...

I am very grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way because, otherwise, I might have been the only...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution and for the massive amount of work that he has be...

Surely there is also an historic injustice here. If the women who were born in the 1950s were gro...

That highlights the tragic state of our nation and how we have been treating women over the years...

I have a number of constituents who have tried to contact the Department, but have not successful...

When people write to complain, their correspondence has to be recognised, responded to and acted ...

It is all right; the hon. Lady has not done anything wrong at all, although some hon. Members loo...

We all know that not all aspects of state pension inequality are the same, which is why I was sho...

I am a member of the Work and Pensions Committee, and insisted that a letter went to the Minister...

This is a huge issue. Where do these people stand now? That is the problem. People are busy; they...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way; she is being very generous with her time. There are 8,500 ...

I thank my hon. Friend for that comment. I completely agree with him.

Can the Minister prov...

As my hon. Friend knows, I was a nurse, and I am of the WASPI age too. A lot of the people I work...

Order. Let me give a little bit of advice to the hon. Lady. She turned her back on the Chair, and...

I thank my hon. Friend for making that point, because it is true. When people are doing physical ...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Gower (Tonia Antoniazzi) on securing the debate. It is an oppo...

I thank the Minister for giving way. I recognise the point he is making with regard to the equali...

There are a number of points to be made, and I will try to address them. There are two key issues...

Health inequalities and class.

I accept those points. That was specifically reviewed by John Cridland on an independent basis, a...

Will the Minister give way?

I will move on to the particular point about healthy life expectancy.

I had prepared specif...

I thank the Minister for the personalised data for Swansea on life expectancy. While all of us wi...

With respect, the point about individual cohorts and the deprivation point are answered in the Cr...

Will the Minister give way?

Bear with me. I will try to answer the point made by the hon. Member for Gower and then I will le...

Is there any impact assessment or data concerning young women who can no longer go back to work b...

I can only refer the hon. Lady to the specifics that I have given: the Department for Work and Pe...

Will the Minister give way?

May I finish this point? Then I will, perfectly properly, allow the hon. Gentleman, who is a memb...

I am grateful to the Minister. I will be brief, because I want to hear what he has to say about t...

I shall try to respond to the hon. Gentleman’s question in writing in order to be specific, but m...

I am trying to get my head around this. The subject matter of the judicial review is not an issue...

I am conscious that I have limited time, so I will write to the hon. Lady and the Chair of the Se...