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Proceeding contribution from Lord Sassoon (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 20 October 2010. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Comprehensive Spending Review.

Comprehensive Spending Review

We need to look at it in the overall context of what the Government have done for elderly people, because this is important. The critical decision is that the Government, as announced before, will meet their commitment to uprate the basic state pension by whichever is the highest—earnings, prices or 2.5 per cent—from April 2011, as well as preserving other key pensioner benefits, which people have questioned, including the winter fuel payments, the free TV licences, the bus travel, the eye tests and the prescriptions. I am grateful for the question on the detail but I think that it gives me the opportunity to emphasise the overall deal for pensioners, which we think is important in this spending review.

Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
721 c857 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
Child tax credit Child benefit Counter-terrorism Disadvantaged Defence BBC Age Banks Capital investment Development aid Civil list Housing benefit Government departments Equitable Life Assurance Society NHS Pensioners Northern Ireland Police Pre-school education Local government finance Workplace pensions Public sector Public expenditure Pupils Railways Redundancy Public finance Public sector debt Scotland Social security benefits Welfare tax credits State retirement pensions Working tax credit Schools Wales Social rented housing Roads Taxation Retirement Science Security of tenure S4C BBC World Service Cuts Employment and support allowance Presbyterian Mutual Society Bank levy Green Investment Bank BBC Monitoring Pupil premium
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