State Pension Changes: Women Debate

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Department: Department for Work and Pensions

State Pension Changes: Women

Ashley Dalton Excerpts
Tuesday 12th March 2024

(9 months, 1 week ago)

Westminster Hall
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Paul Maynard Portrait Paul Maynard
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I can indeed give that assurance. As I have just said, we are fully co-operating at every stage with the ombudsman’s investigations.

Ashley Dalton Portrait Ashley Dalton (West Lancashire) (Lab)
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I understand the Minister’s position on the specifics and the dates. It is perfectly clear that we are not going to get any indication of a timeline, but does the Minister accept that the WASPI women paid their dues and did their part? We have already seen that maladministration has been found. Do the Government accept that a trust on which our entire democracy is built has been broken, and that WASPI women deserve justice as soon as they possibly can?

Paul Maynard Portrait Paul Maynard
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I very much hear what the hon. Lady says. The whole point of the ombudsman’s investigations is to determine the outcome of that process and how justice is to be delivered.