Mary Glindon

Mary Glindon

Labour — Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend

Speaking in the House of Commons on 29 January 2026

Debate

Women’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO Report

Contribution

The Secretary of State said that the evidence shows that the vast majority of 1950s-born women already knew that the state pension age was increasing. I, like my hon. Friend the Member for Blaydon and Consett (Liz Twist), am also a 1950s-born woman. Does the Secretary of State honestly think there would have been such a massive campaign over all these years by WASPI women and their supporters if they believed that that was true and that they knew about their pensions? With particular reference to the 1954 women who were treated so unjustly by the coalition Government, surely the Secretary of State believes that they deserve compensation for the terrible shock they received back in 2011.

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