Steve Webb
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Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree) (Lab/Co-op)
7. What discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the effect on women of changes to the state pension age.
The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Steve Webb)
I wrote to and met the Equality and Human Rights Commission during the Government’s review of the increase in state pension age to 66 to ensure that equality issues were fully considered. A full equality impact assessment was also published as part of the Government’s White Paper, which sets out the effect on women of changes to the state pension age.
Luciana Berger
Will the Minister please update the House on the coalition agreement, which committed to make no change to the state pension age for women before 2020?
Steve Webb
The hon. Lady is not accurately quoting the coalition agreement. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor made it clear before the election that the pension age would not be 66 for men before 2016 or for women before 2020, and we have kept to that.
Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton) (Con)
8. What steps she is taking to eliminate discrimination in employment law on the grounds of gender.