OVERSEAS PENSIONERS

Early day motion 1203, tabled 22 March 2007 by Peter Bottomley (Conservative). Signed by 129 members.

That this House asks the Social Security Advisory Committee to consider Statutory Instrument 2007 No. 775, the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 2007; calls on the Government to provide a remedy to the unjustified and unjustifiable discrimination against the 50 per cent. of overseas UK state pensioners in certain countries including Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand; and requires the Government to present any future Instrument, Regulation or Order that purports to continue the application of disqualification in respect of inflation or other uprating of benefit as an independent Instrument, Regulation or Order instead of tucking it away in Clause 3 of a Regulation misleadlingly titled Uprating.

Signatures by party: Liberal Democrat 46, Labour 36, Conservative 33, DUP 6, Independent 2, Plaid Cymru 2, Scottish National Party 2, Independent Labour 1, UUP 1.