Value Of The Basic State Pension
EDM number 201 in 2004-05, proposed by David Willetts on 25/11/2004.
That this House recognises that the value of the basic state pension has fallen from 35 per cent. of average income in 1996-97 to 30 per cent. in 2001-02; and calls on the Government to increase the basic state pension by earnings not prices, to reverse the spread of means-tested benefits and reverse this trend.
This motion has been signed by a total of 83 MPs.
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