Proceeding contribution from Chris Williamson (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 20 December 2011. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Public Service Pensions.
Public Service Pensions
The truth is that this Government are indulging in a race to the bottom on pensions. The fact is that the 11% of private sector workers currently in a defined benefit scheme will find pressure being brought to bear to reduce the benefits of those schemes as a result of the Minister's forcing down of public sector pensions. Will he tell the House how it can possibly be in the national interest to force more pensioners into poverty, resulting in hundreds of thousands if not millions of pensioners in the future having to rely on means-tested benefits?
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- 537 c1213
- Session
- 2010-12
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- House of Commons chamber
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- Age Contributions Civil servants Civil service Increases Local government NHS Workplace pensions Pensions Public sector Pension rights Teachers Reform Retirement Uprating Consumer prices index
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