Clause 3
Pensions Bill
5:00 pm
Andrew Selous (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; South West Bedfordshire, Conservative)
The gender impact assessment is reasonably recent, but I doubt that it is as recent as the questions raised by Baroness Hollis on 17 January—that is really very recent indeed.
I said that it is entirely possible that those 400,000 people are paying some form of national insurance contribution. We know that they are all caring for more than 20 hours a week, but we need more detail on exactly where they fit; whether they are in work and paying national insurance contributions, or if they are purely carrying out a caring role. On the basis of the definitions in the clause, they would miss out on contribution credit. If the Minister is unable to give more information on that issue now, perhaps he would agree to write to every member of the Committee with a little more analysis regarding the answers received on 17 January.