Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Shailesh Vara and Karen Buck

Monday 1st February 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Vara]

Absolutely. As of April this year, with a new state pension and the triple lock, people will be £1,000 better off than they would have been under the old system whereby pensions were uprated. The triple lock will benefit people by £1,000 by April this year.

[Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North) (Lab)]

6. What evaluation his Department has made of the effect of the under-occupancy penalty.