Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 12 June 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions for what reasons the UK Government voted against the establishment of a Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived.
The UK did not refuse any money, it simply voted against adopting the regulation establishing the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived on the basis that we think member states, and not the European Union, should decide how the money is spent. This was in line with the reasoned opinions adopted by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
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George Morley
Posted on 13 Jun 2014 5:06 pm (Report this annotation)
But the lady is happy to endorse and thereby condone the discriminative pension freezing policy imposed by regulation 3 which robs a minority 4% of deprived pensioners their rightful indexing thereby being the only country with a similar pension system to discriminate against some pensioners because of where they choose to live.
Money is refused here without any justification when a saving is actually being made by these pensioners not being resident in the UK.
With the N.I.Fund being in surplus there is no financial excuse to abuse the system and shame the country in the eyes of the rest of the world.
The honesty and integrity of every member of parliament is on the line with those in charge being held accountable by the electorate who they are supposed to represent which includes pensioners wherever they are.