Extract from Lords debate on the Budget - Mar 12
Saturday, 13 March 2021 11:00
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Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con) [V]:...Will the Government
take the opportunity of the Budget to close the gender gap between
men and women? I think in particular in terms of women’s state
pension: they are now not able to take it until 66 at the earliest,
yet they find it difficult in later years to find work. Also, many
part-time women are disadvantaged and deprived from not being able
to enrol in auto-enrolment pensions. A woman in her 20s now will
retire on £100,000 less than a...Request free trial
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