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WIDOWS' SERPS ENTITLEMENTS

EDM number 526 in 1999-00, proposed by Steve Webb on 14/03/2000.

That this House notes that the 1986 Social Security Act introduced a halving of widows' SERPS entitlements in respect of deaths occurring after April 2000; notes that DSS leaflets and correspondence failed to reflect that change for at least a decade after the Act reached the statute book, leading to an investigation by the Parliamentary Ombudsman; notes that many more pensioners who were not actively misled by these leaflets nonetheless knew nothing about the change until they were too old to make realistic alternative provision; and therefore calls on the Government not only to compensate those future pensioners who were misled but also to exempt from the proposed cut any person who has already reached state pension age.

This motion has been signed by a total of 81 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Steve Webb14/03/2000NorthavonLiberal DemocratProposed
David Rendel14/03/2000NewburyLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Burstow14/03/2000Sutton & CheamLiberal DemocratSigned
Frank Field14/03/2000BirkenheadLabourSigned
Norman Godman14/03/2000Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Roger Berry14/03/2000KingswoodLabourSigned
Nicholas Winterton14/03/2000MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
Colin Breed15/03/2000South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Michie15/03/2000Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell15/03/2000Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn15/03/2000Islington NorthLabourSigned
Valerie Davey15/03/2000Bristol WestLabourSigned
Ronnie Fearn15/03/2000SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock15/03/2000Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Baker15/03/2000LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Todd15/03/2000South DerbyshireLabourSigned
Jenny Tonge15/03/2000Richmond ParkLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Tyler15/03/2000North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Edward O'Hara15/03/2000Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Alice Mahon15/03/2000HalifaxLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd15/03/2000Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Lynne Jones15/03/2000Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins15/03/2000Luton NorthLabourSigned
David Heath15/03/2000Somerton & FromeLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Smyth15/03/2000Belfast SouthUUPSigned
Robert Smith15/03/2000West Aberdeenshire & KincardineLiberal DemocratSigned
Allan Rogers15/03/2000RhonddaLabourSigned
Gordon Prentice15/03/2000PendleLabourSigned
Linda Perham15/03/2000Ilford NorthLabourSigned
Tom Brake16/03/2000Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Vincent Cable16/03/2000TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Cotter16/03/2000Weston-Super-MareLiberal DemocratSigned
John Cummings16/03/2000EasingtonLabourSigned
John Austin16/03/2000Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Dafydd Wigley16/03/2000CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Evan Harris16/03/2000Oxford West & AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Jenny Jones16/03/2000Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Syd Rapson16/03/2000Portsmouth NorthLabourSigned
Adrian Sanders16/03/2000TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson16/03/2000Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Phil Sawford16/03/2000KetteringLabourSigned
Bill Etherington17/03/2000Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Donald Gorrie17/03/2000Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe20/03/2000LeighLabourSigned
Andrew George20/03/2000St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis20/03/2000Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Derek Wyatt20/03/2000Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Ann Cryer21/03/2000KeighleyLabourSigned
Ann Winterton21/03/2000CongletonConservativeSigned
Roy Beggs21/03/2000East AntrimUUPSigned
Eric Clarke21/03/2000MidlothianLabourSigned
Tony McWalter21/03/2000Hemel HempsteadLabour Co-operativeSigned
Archy Kirkwood22/03/2000Roxburgh & BerwickshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Russell Brown22/03/2000DumfriesLabourSigned
Tony Wright22/03/2000Cannock ChaseLabourSigned
Edward Davey23/03/2000Kingston & SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Stunell23/03/2000Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Neil Gerrard24/03/2000WalthamstowLabourSigned
David Chidgey27/03/2000EastleighLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Oaten28/03/2000WinchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Ray Michie28/03/2000Argyll & ButeLiberal DemocratSigned
David Drew30/03/2000StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
Ian Stewart30/03/2000EcclesLabourSigned
Paul Truswell30/03/2000PudseyLabourSigned
Huw Edwards03/04/2000MonmouthLabourSigned
John Cryer05/04/2000HornchurchLabourSigned
Nick Harvey06/04/2000North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell06/04/2000Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
George Stevenson06/04/2000Stoke-on-Trent SouthLabourSigned
Denzil Davies11/04/2000LlanelliLabourSigned
John Wilkinson15/05/2000Ruislip - NorthwoodConservativeSigned
Michael Connarty18/05/2000Falkirk EastLabourSigned
Betty Williams05/06/2000ConwyLabourSigned
John Swinney06/06/2000North TaysideScottish National PartySigned
Sandra Gidley09/06/2000RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Janet Dean14/06/2000BurtonLabourSigned
Peter Brand19/06/2000Isle of WightLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Cunningham19/06/2000Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Nigel Jones20/06/2000CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
William Ross28/06/2000East LondonderryUUPSigned
Barry Jones03/07/2000Alyn & DeesideLabourSigned

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