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HANSARDSocial Security (Additional Payments) (No. 2) BillAs I understand it, the eligibility for the payments is based on being in receipt of benefit—at least 1p—in a specific month. There will be people who, for example, are paid every…21 Feb 2023HANSARDSocial Security (Additional Payments) (No. 2) BillWill the Secretary of State give way?21 Feb 2023HANSARDSaving for Later LifeI welcome what the Minister has just said. Does she envisage annual reporting? Is that the sort of frequency she has in mind for monitoring the size of the gender pensions gap?07 Feb 2023HANSARDSaving for Later LifeYes, I think the hon. Member is quite right. It is not just that women’s earnings are lower and therefore their pension contributions are lower; a lot of women earn below the…07 Feb 2023HANSARDSaving for Later LifeThat is very important. We are expecting quite significant progress on the dashboard this year. The Select Committee will, I hope, be taking evidence about that in a session quite…07 Feb 2023HANSARDSaving for Later LifeThe hon. Gentleman makes an important point. It is helpful for people at school to develop an understanding of financial matters. Even a fairly brief exposure to these matters at…07 Feb 2023HANSARDSaving for Later LifeIt has been a useful debate, and I express my thanks to the Backbench Business Committee for scheduling it. There is no dispute that we need people to save more towards their…07 Feb 2023HANSARD Digital PoundI welcome the Minister’s statement. Firms setting up to deliver blockchain-based financial services in the UK complain that getting a licence here takes far too long because the…07 Feb 2023HANSARDSaving for Later LifeI am grateful to the Minister for giving way again. I hope she is right and the legal position is as she said, but delivering enforcement clearly is not happening at the moment.…07 Feb 2023HANSARDSaving for Later LifeI beg to move, That this House has considered the matter of saving for later life. It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hosie. The debate arises from the…07 Feb 2023HANSARDSaving for Later LifeThe hon. Gentleman is right. The Government have usually—not always—applied the triple lock correctly, but it is absolutely vital that people build their own pension savings on…07 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsActually, of course, it was brought down by economic reality. But I do not think that that Administration would have delivered an inflation uprating, so it is to the credit of the…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsI simply want to respond briefly to the intervention of the hon. Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham), who mentioned me in passing—inaccurately, I must say. He was wrong to say…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsI echo the relief expressed by the hon. Member for Blackpool North and Cleveleys (Paul Maynard) about the uprating decision, and I am pleased to follow his speech. I will begin…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsI absolutely agree. That was the one point at which food bank demand fell, and of course it went straight back up once the £20 uplift was removed. The level of the safety net is…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsThere is a strong case for that. At the time when the benefit cap was introduced, we were told that it was to prevent people from receiving more in benefits than they would if…06 Feb 2023HANSARD Social Security and PensionsThe right hon. Gentleman makes a very powerful argument that the rate at which rents are now rising is devastating household finances in many parts of the country. All the 2020…06 Feb 2023HANSARDRaising the State Pension Age to 68I just want to know why they have not been published. What is the public interest in keeping these things hidden?01 Feb 2023HANSARDRaising the State Pension Age to 68I congratulate the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Nigel Mills) on securing this Backbench Business debate, which gives us the chance to ask for the Government’s views on this topic…01 Feb 2023HANSARDRaising the State Pension Age to 68The two documents from 2017 to which the Minister referred were published four months before the Government’s announcement. Why have the Government not published the documents…01 Feb 2023