Earnings-Related Pension Scheme
Oral Answers to Questions — Social Security
asked the Minister of Social Security whether it is still the Government's policy to introduce an earnings-related state pension scheme.
Could the right hon. Lady assure the House that before she sets the necessary wheels in motion she will give us full details, in a White Paper or some sort of report, of what she proposes to do so that it can be fully and properly debated and considered by this House?
Lord Balniel (Hertford)
As three years have passed since the Prime Minister said that the earnings-related scheme would be introduced without delay, may we have an assurance that we shall' have the White Paper this summer?
Mrs Judith Hart (Lanark)
I hope it will be before the end of the year, but I remind the hon. Gentleman that this is a bigger scheme than the Beveridge scheme and the Beveridge scheme took seven years.