Clause 1 — Equalisation of and increase in pensionable age for men and women
Concessionary Bus Travel (Amendment)
6:15 pm
Pat Glass (North West Durham, Labour)
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. We have heard several Members on the Government Benches talk about a perfect world, but does he accept that we did not have a perfect world in 1909, when the first pensions legislation was discussed, and that we certainly did not have one in 1945? Other Governments nevertheless saw that it was right not to take this kind of action, despite the very difficult financial circumstances in which they found themselves.