Benefits and pensions
Gender Recognition Bill [Lords]
10:45 am
Ms Maria Eagle (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Minister for Disabled People), Department for Work and Pensions; Liverpool, Garston, Labour)
It is refreshing to hear the hon. Member for Daventry say that the range of pensions and social security benefits in schedule 5 are simpler than those involved in the previous group of amendments. That says more about the previous group of amendments than it does about the social security system. None the less, I was encouraged to hear that he is sufficiently au fait with every possible permutation in the benefit system to have the confidence to say that.