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NATIONAL PENSIONERS' CONVENTION

Early day motion 1185, tabled 1 April 1998 by Kevin McNamara (Labour). Signed by 131 members.

That this House congratulates the National Pensioners' Convention on their highly successful rally and lobby of Parliament on 26th March; looks forward to an early report and proposals arising from the Government's pensions review; and urges that, in addition to a significant improvement in the basic state pension, the report's proposals will include a major improvement in the over-80s, non-means tested addition, and the extension of such addition to the over 75s.

Signatures by party: Labour 99, Liberal Democrat 10, Labour/Co-operative 8, UUP 5, Plaid Cymru 3, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Conservative 1, DUP 1, Scottish National Party 1, Unknown 1.