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Raising of the Pension Age

I congratulate the hon. Member for Leyton and Wanstead (Harry Cohen) on bringing this important issue before the House. It is one to which we have not devoted enough attention. Although we are talking about what happens post 2020 when we go from 65 to 68, I strongly suspect that our mailbags will start to fill up very soon with letters from women who did not know that the age was going up from 60. Although that change—I think that I am right in saying this—was contained in a pensions Act in the mid-1990s—