I am sorry; I do not intend to get up again, unless really provoked. I think the Minister said that the benefits had to be uprated in line with CPI. If the Government judged that to be an insufficient uprating—zero, in this case—because of what had happened to the costs of those concerned, is she saying that the Government would be precluded from uprating further or beyond the zero? Are they bound by that?
State Pension (Amendment) Regulations 2016
Proceeding contribution from
Lord McKenzie of Luton
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 22 February 2016.
It occurred during Debates on delegated legislation on State Pension (Amendment) Regulations 2016.
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