THE final Prime Minister’s Questions of this Parliament (“Slice of history as exiting Tory MPs give strong and stable backing to PM”,The Herald, April 27) could have heard a range of questions on a multitude of subjects yet interestingly a call for justice on a subject that is not going away again came to the forefront and will fall on the desk of the new government in due course.
That subject is the campaign by Women Against State Pension Inequality over the injustice many women born in the 1950 are suffering as a result of Conservative Government legislation and policies to raise the state pension age. There is no issue with equality of pension age for men and women, the issue is the lack of any notice given to women born in the 1950’s who were denied any time to put alternative arrangements in place for their pension. It is interesting that at the final PMQs of this Parliament a subject which affects 2.5million women in the country was deservedly raised.
Catriona C Clark,
52 Hawthorn Drive,
Banknock, Falkirk.
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