State Pension Inequality for Women APPG
First Registered: 03/06/2016 • Last updated on: 29/12/2021
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To provide a cross-party forum in which to hold the government to account on the issue of transitional arrangements to compensate 1950's-born women who are affected by changes to the state pension age and to campaign on issues around the state pension age.
1. Women’s State Pension age: our findings on the Department for Work and Pensions’ communication of changes
20/07/2021 - The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
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Found:
Women™s State Pension age:
our findings on the Department
for Work and Pensions™
2. Increases in the State Pension age for women born in the 1950s
09/09/2019 - Parliamentary Research
Found: Number CBP-7405, 9 September 2019 State Pension age increases for women born in the 1950s By Djuna Thurley;
3. The gender pension gap
25/01/2021 - Early Day Motions
Found: this House expresses concern about the gender pension gap which stands at around 40.3 per cent, more
4. Women and pensions
06/11/2018 - Parliamentary Research
Found: BRIEFING PAPER Number CBP07286, 6 November 2018 Women and pensions By Djuna Thurley; Richard Keen, Rod
5. Women’s State Pension age: our findings on the Department for Work and Pensions’ communication of changes
20/07/2021 - The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
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Found: Independent report
Women’s State Pension age: our findings on the Department for Work
1. Women affected by changes to the state pension age
17/12/2018 - Petitions
1: consequences; and further that hundreds of thousands of women have had significant changes imposed on them with - Speech Link
2: consequences; and further that hundreds of thousands of women have had significant changes imposed on them with - Speech Link
3: Group on State Pension Inequality for Women to make fair transitional arrangements for all women affected - Speech Link
4: Group on State Pension Inequality for Women to make fair transitional arrangements for all women affected - Speech Link
2. Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill
01/10/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: move amendment 1, page 1, line 10, leave out from “State” to the end of line 15 and insert—“shall lay before - Speech Link
2: in the form of the draft until the Secretary of State has laid before Parliament a report containing an - Speech Link
3. The increase to the state pension age
15/09/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: This is Pension Awareness Week, and I rise this evening to present a petition on behalf of the women of Glasgow - Speech Link
4. Bus Passes: 1950s-born Women
30/10/2019 - Westminster Hall
1: issue that is very important to about 4 million women in this country. But I should make it clear right - Speech Link
2: difference to a lot of WASPI women—Women Against State Pension Inequality? The reality, however, is that - Speech Link
3: intervention. As I understand it, a number of WASPI women or women born in the early 1950s have submitted complaints - Speech Link
5. State Pension Age: Women
31/01/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: again to raise the ongoing issue of state pension inequality for women born in the 1950s. I thank Mr Speaker - Speech Link
2: political process? The WASPI women—the Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign—should not have to - Speech Link
3: proficient and active on this case. With 5,800 women in my constituency being out of pocket, many of - Speech Link
asked by: Ruth Jones
15/11/2021
... when she last met representatives of the Women Against State Pension Inequality group. 2. Women against State Pension Inequality
asked by: Philip Davies
19/03/2020
... if she will meet with the WASPI campaign group once the Court of Appeal proceedings are over. 3. Women against State Pension Inequality
asked by: Roger Godsiff
26/11/2018
... whether her Department plans to accept recommendations made by the Ombudsman's investigation into complaints regarding WASPI. 4. Women against State Pension Inequality
asked by: Catherine McKinnell
10/09/2018
... whether she plans to meet with representatives of the WASPI campaign in the future. 5. Women against State Pension Inequality
asked by: Gavin Newlands
16/07/2018
... when she last met with representatives of WASPI women.
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Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
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Andrew Gwynne MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 4708.
Email: gwynnea@parliament.uk
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GMB Wales South West Region
Funding received via Campaign Collective for a consultation exercise being managed by the latter for the APPG
£1,501
5 Dec 2017
USDAW Head Office
Funding received via Campaign Collective for a consultation exercise being managed by the latter for the APPG
£1,501
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Former APPG Officers
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Carolyn Harris
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Swansea East
Joined: 3rd June 2016Departed: 10th March 2021
Tim Loughton
Co-Chair
Conservative - East Worthing and Shoreham
Joined: 3rd June 2016Departed: 10th March 2021
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Richard Thomson
Officer
Scottish National Party - Gordon
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
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Stephen Flynn
Officer
Scottish National Party - Aberdeen South
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
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Olivia Blake
Officer
Labour - Former Member for Sheffield, Hallam
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
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Paula Barker
Officer
Labour - Liverpool, Wavertree
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
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Tommy Sheppard
Officer
Scottish National Party - Edinburgh East
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
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Kieran Mullan
Officer
Conservative - Crewe and Nantwich
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
Kim Johnson
Officer
Labour - Liverpool, Riverside
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
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Sally-Ann Hart
Officer
Conservative - Hastings and Rye
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
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Douglas Chapman
Officer
Scottish National Party - Dunfermline and West Fife
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
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Jack Dromey
Officer
Labour - Former Member for Birmingham, Erdington
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
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Stuart C McDonald
Officer
Scottish National Party - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
Chris Stephens
Officer
Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
Rosie Winterton
Officer
Labour - Doncaster Central
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
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Caroline Lucas
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Green Party - Brighton, Pavilion
Joined: 3rd June 2016Departed: 10th March 2021
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Christine Jardine
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
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Flick Drummond
Officer
Conservative - Meon Valley
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 10th March 2021
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Mhairi Black
Vice-Chair
Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Joined: 3rd June 2016Departed: 5th November 2019
Equitable Life Policyholders
Baroness Burt of Solihull
Vice-Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 5th November 2019
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Julie Elliott
Vice-Chair
Labour - Sunderland Central
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 5th November 2019
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Louise Haigh
Vice-Chair
Labour - Sheffield, Heeley
Joined: 28th September 2017Departed: 5th November 2019
Scott Mann
Vice-Chair
Conservative - North Cornwall
Joined: 3rd June 2016Departed: 5th November 2019
Catherine McKinnell
Vice-Chair
Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North
Joined: 3rd June 2016Departed: 5th November 2019
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Liz McInnes
Vice-Chair
Labour - Former Member for Heywood and Middleton
Joined: 3rd June 2016Departed: 5th November 2019
Alan Brown
Vice-Chair
Scottish National Party - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Joined: 3rd June 2016Departed: 5th November 2019
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Angela Crawley
Vice-Chair
Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East
Joined: 3rd June 2016Departed: 5th November 2019
Baroness Bakewell
Vice-Chair
Joined: 3rd June 2016Departed: 5th November 2019
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Marion Fellows
Vice-Chair
Scottish National Party - Motherwell and Wishaw
Joined: 2nd January 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
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Stephen Lloyd
Vice-Chair
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for Eastbourne
Joined: 2nd January 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
Danny Kinahan
Co-Chair
Ulster Unionist Party - Former Member for South Antrim
Joined: 3rd June 2016Departed: 2nd May 2017
Mark Durkan
Co-Chair
Social Democratic & Labour Party - Former Member for Foyle
Joined: 3rd June 2016Departed: 2nd May 2017
Barbara Keeley
Vice Chair
Labour - Worsley and Eccles South
Joined: 3rd June 2016Departed: 2nd May 2017
Ian Blackford
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
Joined: 3rd June 2016Departed: 2nd May 2017
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