Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) action plan: How DWP will learn lessons following the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s (PHSO) investigation into communications around women’s State Pension age. 24p.

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) action plan: How DWP will learn lessons following the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s (PHSO) investigation into communications around women’s State Pension age. 24p.

My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Education (Gavin Williamson) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

Today, I am pleased to launch the government’s new reforms of higher technical education in England.

Take up of higher technical education in England is low and has been falling, leading to skills...

My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Education (Gavin Williamson) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

Today, I am pleased to launch the government’s new reforms of higher technical education in England.

Take up of higher technical education in England is low and has been falling, leading to skills...

Today, I am pleased to launch the government’s new reforms of higher technical education in England.

Take up of higher technical education in England is low and has been falling, leading to skills shortages across our economy. Employers are struggling to access the higher technical skills they need to grow and...

Today, I am pleased to launch the government’s new reforms of higher technical education in England.

Take up of higher technical education in England is low and has been falling, leading to skills shortages across our economy. Employers are struggling to access the higher technical skills they need to grow and...

My Lords, I am delighted to launch this topical Question for Short Debate arising from issues that have currently swept the country and the media involving the transition to new pension arrangements. This is a small gathering, but a distinguished one, and I look forward to hearing the Minister’s response...

My Lords, I am delighted to launch this topical Question for Short Debate arising from issues that have currently swept the country and the media involving the transition to new pension arrangements. This is a small gathering, but a distinguished one, and I look forward to hearing the Minister’s response...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell, for raising this issue—just in the nick of time for me, as it happens, as I have another four days left in my 50s. We can only just scratch the surface of the subject of many women’s perceived...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell, for raising this issue—just in the nick of time for me, as it happens, as I have another four days left in my 50s. We can only just scratch the surface of the subject of many women’s perceived...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Bakewell for initiating this short debate and for bringing to our attention some of the distressing communications she has received in her postbag. I also thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jenkin, and the noble Lord, Lord Stoneham, for their contributions. We are...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Bakewell for initiating this short debate and for bringing to our attention some of the distressing communications she has received in her postbag. I also thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jenkin, and the noble Lord, Lord Stoneham, for their contributions. We are...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell, for raising this issue once again and for securing this debate, to which it is important that I respond.

The debate highlights two integrated areas of the Government’s reform programme: the state pension age changes and the new state pension reforms. I...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell, for raising this issue once again and for securing this debate, to which it is important that I respond.

The debate highlights two integrated areas of the Government’s reform programme: the state pension age changes and the new state pension reforms. I...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for initiating this debate and congratulate her on her ongoing efforts to campaign on behalf of women disadvantaged in our pension system. It is the first debate in which I have engaged with the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, and I congratulate her on...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for initiating this debate and congratulate her on her ongoing efforts to campaign on behalf of women disadvantaged in our pension system. It is the first debate in which I have engaged with the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, and I congratulate her on...

Lords question for short debate on, in the light of the new single-tier state pension, what provisions they have made for informing women in their 50s of their pension expectations.

Lords question for short debate on, in the light of the new single-tier state pension, what provisions they have made for informing women in their 50s of their pension expectations.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps he is taking to ensure that pupils understand the reforms to the education system that are currently underway.

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To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps he is taking to ensure that pupils understand the reforms to the education system that are currently underway.

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Electoral Commission response to the Home Office consultation on the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012 and Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Functions of Returning Officers) Regulations 2012. 51 p.

Electoral Commission response to the Home Office consultation on the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012 and Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Functions of Returning Officers) Regulations 2012. 51 p.

The Deputy Leader of the House makes a fair point that those registers were out of date. Does he believe it is of equal concern that 3.5 million people will not be registered by the time the new constituency boundaries are drawn up?

The Deputy Leader of the House makes a fair point that those registers were out of date. Does he believe it is of equal concern that 3.5 million people will not be registered by the time the new constituency boundaries are drawn up?

Yes, it is very important that we get people registered, and it is an indictment of the previous Government's conduct that they totally failed to deal with the gap in registration. However, I have to say that it is not relevant to the issue before us at the moment.

Yes, it is very important that we get people registered, and it is an indictment of the previous Government's conduct that they totally failed to deal with the gap in registration. However, I have to say that it is not relevant to the issue before us at the moment.

The Deputy Leader of the House will be aware that the average time taken for a review in the current system is six years. In his new system it will be three years. Bearing in mind that he has conceded that people will still be missed off the electoral register,...

The Deputy Leader of the House will be aware that the average time taken for a review in the current system is six years. In his new system it will be three years. Bearing in mind that he has conceded that people will still be missed off the electoral register,...

It is hardly a secret that we want a general election based on fair constituencies, and I do not think that is an unreasonable aspiration. The second reason why we are abolishing the public inquiries is that they do not achieve their purpose. They do not provide the boundary commissions...

It is hardly a secret that we want a general election based on fair constituencies, and I do not think that is an unreasonable aspiration. The second reason why we are abolishing the public inquiries is that they do not achieve their purpose. They do not provide the boundary commissions...

The Deputy Leader of the House makes an interesting point and quotes a generalised point that the professor made, but did not he and many other experts also make the specific point that bearing in mind the huge changes that are to be made, this is the one occasion if...

The Deputy Leader of the House makes an interesting point and quotes a generalised point that the professor made, but did not he and many other experts also make the specific point that bearing in mind the huge changes that are to be made, this is the one occasion if...

No, it is the one occasion when it is absolutely essential that we have the fullest possible consultation process, and that is why we are extending the consultation period for three months, allowing every single person to have their say, not just the political parties that want to turn up...

No, it is the one occasion when it is absolutely essential that we have the fullest possible consultation process, and that is why we are extending the consultation period for three months, allowing every single person to have their say, not just the political parties that want to turn up...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady. The Select Committee has done a very good job in raising some important issues. Amendment 205 would add a stage to the consultation process that the boundary commissions are required to carry out for the purposes of the review. Prior to making recommendations,...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady. The Select Committee has done a very good job in raising some important issues. Amendment 205 would add a stage to the consultation process that the boundary commissions are required to carry out for the purposes of the review. Prior to making recommendations,...