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Forces Widows' Pensions (Equality of Treatment) Bill

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

494 c584-606 

Session

2008-09

Department

Ministry of Defence

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Private members' bills proceedings

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Forces Widows' Pensions (Equality of Treatment) Bill.
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Beamish | 494 c603-4 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the Government have recognised and helped that group. The Conservatives opposed th...

Michael Mates | 494 c604 (Link to this contribution) I am almost sure that there were no pension provisions for reserve forces before 1973, so there cann...

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Michael Mates | 494 c600 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister. I am sure he needs to get off his feet for a minute in the middle of ...

Lord Beamish | 494 c600-3 (Link to this contribution) Does not the right hon. Gentleman think it would be very unfair if, for example, we were to pay the ...

Michael Mates | 494 c596 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is dealing with the Bill fairly, but it is very hard to explain these anomalies to cert...

Michael Mates | 494 c594 (Link to this contribution) Natural causes.

Michael Mates | 494 c589 (Link to this contribution) So does this.

Lord Beamish | 494 c590-3 (Link to this contribution) As usual, the hon. Gentleman makes a useful intervention. If he uses the great services of the Libra...

Simon Burns | 494 c590 (Link to this contribution) So that we can put into perspective the impact of the pension on recipients at that time, can the Un...

Michael Mates | 494 c584-7 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The past three hours have seen the House of...

Lord Beamish | 494 c606 (Link to this contribution) Speaking as an aficionado of Fridays when I was a Back Bencher, and having secured the— The debate ...

Lord Beamish | 494 c604-6 (Link to this contribution) We will call that a score draw, but such matters could be considered in Committee, as the hon. Membe...

Michael Mates | 494 c600 (Link to this contribution) The Minister destroys his own argument. If the figure is based on the course of nature, and we know ...

Lord Beamish | 494 c600 (Link to this contribution) I agree, but the issue of retrospection arises. I am happy to speak to him after the debate, to see ...

Lord Beamish | 494 c596-600 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will wait with anticipation for my figures. What we cannot do, ...

Eric Joyce | 494 c603 (Link to this contribution) That improvement seems particularly important. Around the country there are not a huge number of peo...

Lord Beamish | 494 c594 (Link to this contribution) Yes, "natural causes" is better terminology than "normal circumstances". The war award widow receiv...

Andrew Murrison | 494 c594 (Link to this contribution) There has only been one year since 1939 in which our armed forces have not been engaged in some sort...

Lord Beamish | 494 c593-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has expressed it in old money. Why it was £26 a year, I am not sure. I asked my o...

Michael Mates | 494 c593 (Link to this contribution) Ten shillings a week.

Andrew Murrison | 494 c587-8 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for East Hampshire (Mr. Mates) on bringing his Bill t...

Annette Brooke | 494 c588 (Link to this contribution) I shall be very brief in light of the time that is left. I congratulate the right hon. Member for Ea...

Lord Beamish | 494 c588-9 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the right hon. Member for East Hampshire (Mr. Mates) on introducing this Bill. His su...

Lord Beamish | 494 c594-6 (Link to this contribution) As I understand it, the scheme refers to both. The distinction that we made, which I shall come to, ...

Lord Beamish | 494 c589-90 (Link to this contribution) But the numbers involved are different, and I shall certainly cover that matter later. We need to d...

Subjects

Armed forces Bereavement benefits Equality Pensions Widowed people Veterans

Legislation

Forces Widows' Pensions (Equality of Treatment) Bill 2008-09

Link

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