CPI/RPI Pensions Uprating

Debate between David Crausby and Baroness Primarolo

Thursday 1st March 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Crausby]

I think that members of the public have been mis-sold pension schemes over a generation by a series of Governments. It is about time that this House instructed its leadership to behave decently to pensioners. That is why I am trying to make the principled point that one Government should stick by the promises made by previous Governments. To effectively backdate the reduction in an individual’s pension throughout their entire life through this move on RPI and CPI must be completely unacceptable—[Interruption.]

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Dawn Primarolo)]

Order. I was waiting for Members to stand. I call Stephen Lloyd.