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Debate between Pat Glass and Mark Francois
Monday 14th January 2013

(11 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mark Francois Portrait Mr Francois
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You want brief answers, Mr Speaker: yes.

Pat Glass Portrait Pat Glass (North West Durham) (Lab)
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Will the new state pension arrangements that will be announced today and implemented in 2017 mean that a member of the armed services who is 13 years from retirement today will have to contribute for nine years at the higher level but not receive the state pension?

Mark Francois Portrait Mr Francois
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We are working on the details of armed forces pension scheme 15 at the moment. We are still working on some of the fine detail, but I can already say—[Interruption.] Yes, I know, but we are still working on some of the fine detail for its implementation when it starts in 2015. I can already say that the Forces Pension Society has described the new pension as

“as good as it gets”.

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