Clause 5
Pensions Bill
3:47 pm
James Purnell (Minister of State (Pensions Reform), Department for Work and Pensions; Stalybridge and Hyde, Labour)
The hon. Gentleman says that the Conservative party got there first. I hope he will agree that its policy was slightly different. It was to stop the crawl of new rights under the state second pension. It was to increase for one term the basic state pension in line with earnings, but to pay for it by taking money away from people who contributed into S2P. That is not the policy that we are following.