Pensions
Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions
2:30 pm
Adam Holloway (Gravesham, Conservative)
If he will make a statement on the plans announced in the Queen's Speech to reform the pension system.
John Hutton (Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions; Barrow and Furness, Labour)
A Bill will be introduced providing for long-term reform of pensions, making the state pension fairer and more generous and beginning the process of establishing a new scheme of personal accounts.
Adam Holloway (Gravesham, Conservative)
While reform of the pension system is badly needed, is it not the case that millions of women remain disadvantaged in terms of pension provision?
John Hutton (Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions; Barrow and Furness, Labour)
They do, and that is why we are bringing forward our reforms.