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HANSARDPrivate Pension Pots: Young PeopleThis is an important question, and one where we have seen some good news on the back of cross-party working over the last 15 years. Automatic enrolment has succeeded in…12 May 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel Payment: Means-testingWe have set out our policy, but here we are 10 months on and I have no idea what the Conservatives’ policy is. I am not even sure that they know what their policy is. For all the…12 May 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel Payment: Means-testingWe should always learn lessons from Wales. In fact, this Government are already doing that. The roll-out of free breakfast clubs, which is happening across England at the moment,…12 May 2025HANSARD Pension FundsEveryone deserves a secure retirement. For many, their occupational pension is an essential part of that. Having spent years paying into a pension scheme, it matters to all of us…23 Apr 2025HANSARD Pension FundsI thank the hon. Member for the reminder to respond to that point. He will know that trustees already have a responsibility to invest in the interests of their members and that…23 Apr 2025HANSARDForeign Investment: UK SummitThe hon. Member will be excited to know that the Business Secretary will be announcing in the coming weeks that shovels are already in the ground, or will be going into the…08 Apr 2025HANSARDPensioners: Cost of LivingI thank my hon. Friend for being a regular attender at Treasury questions, and indeed, as far as I can work out, at every other departmental questions session. He is right to…08 Apr 2025HANSARDPensioners: Cost of LivingWhat the Government are doing is raising the state pension, extending the warm home discount, and ensuring that an extra 50,000 people have had access to pension credit over the…08 Apr 2025HANSARDPensioners: Cost of LivingThe Government’s top priorities for pensioners are to raise the state pension and to rescue the NHS. This week more than 12 million pensioners saw their state pensions rise by…08 Apr 2025HANSARDForeign Investment: UK SummitMy hon. Friend consistently asks good questions that go to the heart of the matter. If I look back over the past 14 years, I see that British business investment has been the…08 Apr 2025HANSARDForeign Investment: UK SummitIncreasing investment in the UK, both public and private, is the Government’s absolute priority. It is the route to restarting badly needed productivity and wage growth. As the…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Green Book ReviewMy hon. Friend is completely right about both points. We need to address that, partly by providing decent funding for local government. Members will have seen that being laid out…02 Apr 2025HANSARD Green Book ReviewIt is a pleasure to have you overseeing us today, Mr Pritchard. Like everybody else, I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Congleton (Mrs Russell) on securing the debate. I…02 Apr 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentI thank the right hon. Member, not least for his kind words about a very impressive organisation that goes from strength to strength under far better leadership than it had in the…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentNo. Apparently, means-testing the winter fuel payment is beyond the pale, but means-testing the state pension—the bedrock of pensioners’ incomes—is the future. The Leader of the…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentI will not. Pensioner poverty halved under the last Labour Government, but the Conservatives’ record was higher pensioner poverty—an increase of 300,000 people on their watch. We…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentThe right hon. Lady makes a fair point. I will come back to what more work we need to do to understand the barriers to people applying for pension credit. Research shows, though,…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentI do not think that anybody in the House is going to be treating pensioners with disdain. That is why the state pension will rise by 4.1% in April, why we have put £26 billion…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentThe poverty assessment, which we provided to the Work and Pensions Committee, does not take into account any increase in pension credit take-up, which I will come to shortly. The…19 Mar 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel PaymentI congratulate it and I thank my hon. Friend, and probably hon. Members on both sides of the House, who I am sure have engaged with local charities in supporting their pensioners…19 Mar 2025