State Pension: Women born in the 1950s — [Mr Peter Bone in the Chair]

Part of Backbench Business – in Westminster Hall at 1:51 pm on 22 November 2018.

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Photo of Alex Burghart Alex Burghart Conservative, Brentwood and Ongar 1:51, 22 November 2018

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his lengthy intervention. I am making my own speech and will make my points in the way that I wish to make them, although I am grateful to him for telling me how I should speak.

The major demographic change needed to be addressed. A girl born in 1951 was expected to live to 81, and a boy to 77. By this year, the Office for National Statistics cohort figures showed an increase of more than 10 years for newborn girls and more than 12 years for boys, to 92 and 89 respectively.