Oral Answers to Questions

Baroness Morgan of Cotes Excerpts

Monday 9th January 2017 Commons Chamber

[The Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work (Penny Mordaunt)]

PIP is slightly different. For example, someone’s needs might increase and they need a reassessment to receive more support under PIP. The Green Paper affords us the opportunity to look at all these things together. I think there are opportunities for PIP perhaps to have a lighter assessment, but we need to get the whole process right.

[Nicky Morgan (Loughborough) (Con)]

T7. I wrote to the Pensions Minister on 16 December about my constituent, Ruth Saunders, who drew to my attention the fact that there are certain defined-benefit pension schemes where increases are not being paid for amounts paid in before April 1997. He very kindly responded on 5 January. The point is that there is discrimination because only 10% to 15% of companies are not paying these increases. The issue is whether the amount can be corrected going forward. I would suggest that this is one of the burning injustices that the Prime Minister was talking about, and I would like a meeting with the Minister and my constituent to discuss the issue further.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Pensions (Richard Harrington)]

I would be delighted to have a meeting with my right hon. Friend and her constituent.