Oral Answers to Questions

Chris Elmore Excerpts

Monday 21st March 2022 Commons Chamber

[Scott Benton (Blackpool South) (Con)]

3. What steps she is taking to help support pensioners with the cost of living.

[Chris Elmore (Ogmore) (Lab)]

9. What steps her Department is taking to support pensioners to manage the increase in the cost of living.

[Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Slough) (Lab)]

10. What steps her Department is taking to support pensioners to manage the increase in the cost of living.

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[Mr Speaker]

Order. I do not think it is becoming of anybody to condemn a Member of Parliament who has not been here for a long, long time. I do not really want to get into that, so we should think about what we say in future.

[Chris Elmore]

The Minister will know that, in my constituency, 88% of people will see their energy bills go up next week, more than 50% of whom are over the age of 64. What more will the Department do to ensure that older people in my constituency get more support with their energy bills? Simply ignoring the issue, or giving pensioners a loan to pay back, penalises people who do not have enough money to survive—it is heating or eating under this Tory Government.

[Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South) (Lab/Co-op)]

Has the Minister written to the local paper?