Pensions and Welfare Reform

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 5:19 pm on 13 October 2004.

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Photo of Michael Jabez Foster Michael Jabez Foster Labour, Hastings and Rye 5:19, 13 October 2004

My hon. Friend rightly points out that pensioners are better off than they were under the previous Government, but if the Conservatives were to abolish the pension credit system, surely the worry is that people on that credit would experience a freeze for 20 years while the basic pension caught up, so real poverty would return in the meantime.