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Business of the House

In social security upratings, there is something that is normally missed because neither the Government nor the previous Government have changed it. I refer to the anomaly whereby people who have state pensions in this country do not receive upratings for inflation if they go to Canada, but do if they go to the United States. If they go to South Africa or Zimbabwe they do not, but they do in many other countries in Africa. It is time that Parliament had a debate to see whether fairness can be brought on that account.