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Debate between Stephen Hepburn and Guy Opperman
Monday 2nd July 2018

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Stephen Hepburn Portrait Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow) (Lab)
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15. What recent representations she has received from people affected by the pension transition arrangements for women born in the 1950s.

Guy Opperman Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Guy Opperman)
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The Department has received a number of representations from people regarding changes to state pension age since 1995, and the matter has been comprehensively debated on many occasions. Women will receive their state pension either at the same age as men or earlier as we remove the current inequality.

Stephen Hepburn Portrait Mr Hepburn
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The Government have seen fit to award the richest personal earners and the top five wealthiest corporations in the country tens of billions of pounds in tax cuts. Do the Government think that the Tories are being fair when they steal the pensions of women to stuff their friends’ pockets?

Guy Opperman Portrait Guy Opperman
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It is always good to hear the dinosaur that is my friend from the north-east, the hon. Member for Jarrow (Mr Hepburn). He was in government between 1997 and 2010 when he could have changed the law and did not. The reality of the situation is that the richest 1% have never paid more tax than at present and that corporation tax reductions create jobs, as has been comprehensively proved. He, I am afraid, has no grasp of the facts as they now are.