Charles Kennedy

Liberal Democrats | Ross Skye & Lochaber

Kennedy: Pension Inequality For Women Must Be Tackled

Charles Kennedy, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, today asked Tony Blair at Prime Minister’s questions whether he would ‘acknowledge that if we are seriously to tackle the ongoing discrimination against women in the operations of our pensions system then the best way to tackle that would be to establish automatic entitlements for women to pensions’.

Mr Kennedy went on to ask the Prime Minister why he didn’t ‘see the merit of front-loading for those aged over 75 in the pensions system an extra £25 pounds a week - £100 a month - which will tackle this degree of inequality much more effectively than is the case at the moment. Now that’s what we are arguing, why won’t he argue it as well?’