Pension Equality for Women

Debate between Joan Ryan and Grahame Morris

Thursday 14th December 2017 Commons Chamber

[Grahame Morris]

I am grateful for that intervention. I shall come to some of the proposals that have been made and how the injustice might be addressed.

[Joan Ryan (Enfield North) (Lab)]

I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. Does he agree that it is shocking and unacceptable that the WASPI campaigners have had to work so tirelessly to get absolutely no response from the Government?

[Grahame Morris]

I completely agree. We have debated this issue many times—perhaps 29 or 30—in the Chamber and Westminster Hall, and we have been incredibly active over the past few months. Early-day motion 63 has 195 signatures, while an e-petition that was laid before Parliament attracted 109,000 signatures, and that number continues to grow. A Westminster Hall debate was so oversubscribed that some Members were sitting on the window ledges.