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Angela Crawley Excerpts
Thursday 27th October 2016

(7 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Angela Crawley Portrait Angela Crawley (Lanark and Hamilton East) (SNP)
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The Scottish National party commissioned independent research by Landman Economics that found the inequalities facing many of the WASPI women can be rectified if the UK Government implement the report’s recommendations for the sum of £8 billion, rather than the previously cited £30 billion. Will the Minister urge her Treasury colleagues to prioritise this issue ahead of the autumn statement?

Caroline Nokes Portrait Caroline Nokes
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A range of potential options have been proposed by a number of different campaigns, but nothing that is specifically aimed at those most disadvantaged by the state pension age increases, and none of them has proposed something significantly better or, indeed, affordable and at an acceptable cost to the taxpayer.