Proceeding contribution from Steve Webb (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 17 February 2011. It occurred during Debates on delegated legislation on Social Security.
Social Security
My hon. Friend is quite right. One of my first tasks as a Minister was quite strange. I had to write ministerial letters to say why we the Government—meaning my predecessors—had frozen people's SERPS pensions, which was precisely because the RPI was negative, yet inflation was not.
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- Proceeding contribution
- Reference
- 523 c1180
- Session
- 2010-12
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- House of Commons chamber
- Subjects
- Index linking Workplace pensions Social security benefits State retirement pensions Uprating Consumer prices index Average earnings
- Legislation
- Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 2011
- Social Security Benefits and Up-rating Order 2011
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- View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk
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