Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:33 pm on 24 February 2016.
That is an extremely common experience for MPs, because the letters sent out in 1995 by the then Tory Government were neither use nor ornament. I have got one here that was sent to a woman on
“a form inviting you to claim your State Retirement Pension will be sent to you” a few
“months before you reach 60.”
This happened in the very month that the Bill that became the 1995 Act was going through this House under that Government. That is a measure of what a desperately poor job they did of informing people.