Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Christopher Chope and Harriett Baldwin

Thursday 25th February 2016 Commons Chamber

[Harriett Baldwin]

As a woman whose state pension age has gone up by six years during her working lifetime, I welcome the changes that will equalise the state pension age for men and women. That will end the discrimination of women in their late 50s, which has prevented far too many of them from reaching higher-paid roles in our society.

[Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch) (Con)]

What are the Government doing to reduce the economic inequality caused by gender differences in life expectancy?

[Harriett Baldwin]

We are putting more money into the NHS to ensure that everyone benefits from the good healthcare that has resulted in one of the remarkable features of our age—the fact that people of both genders are living much longer, which we should welcome.