Cost of Living

Part of Women and Equalities – in the House of Commons at 9:30 am on 12 December 2013.

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Photo of David Heath David Heath Liberal Democrat, Somerton and Frome 9:30, 12 December 2013

Does my hon. Friend remember, as I do, a time when women cleaners in the City paid tax at a higher rate than their millionaire bosses and when women pensioners were offered a derisory increase of 75p in their pensions? She has already mentioned the tax thresholds, and we now have the triple lock on pensions. Is that not really good news for many women across the country?