Clause 1 - Equalisation of and increase in pensionable age for men and women

Part of Pensions Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 1:15 pm on 7 July 2011.

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Photo of Malcolm Wicks Malcolm Wicks Labour, Croydon North 1:15, 7 July 2011

I take the point about coal miners, which was on my mind this morning because of the compensation scheme for the debilitating medical conditions that many of those folk suffered from, and which I remember from when I was Minister for Energy. Let us take a different example. I do not have the statistics, but people in private or public care homes who do the toileting, bathing and cleaning are doing back-breaking work, and the numbers are probably higher now than they would have been.