New clause 1 - Advice
State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]
10:15 am
Mr Tim Boswell (Daventry, Conservative)
The hon. Gentleman is making characteristically constructive comments, and I agree, in particular, with his point on further education. Does he not think, however—the hon. Member for Northavon touched on this—that there should be no element of compulsion? We want no suggestion that pensioner claimants must go to further education colleges to learn how to fill in the forms. Some people of my age have not had the privilege of learning IT as a native language, but have had to acquire it later on. Quite a lot of people are still put off by it, however seductive the hon. Gentleman's presentation.