WAR WIDOWS' PENSION

Early day motion 187, tabled 26 June 2014 by Bob Ainsworth (Labour). Signed by 68 members.

That this House is deeply concerned about the anomaly whereby war widows awarded a pension between 31 March 1973 and 5 April 2005 lose their entitlement if they co-habit or re-marry, whereas those widowed before and after those dates do not; and calls on the Government to rectify this unfair discrimination, affecting some 4,000 widows, by allowing all of them to keep their pensions for life, as advocated by the War Widows' Association of Great Britain.

Signatures by party: Labour 29, Conservative 13, Liberal Democrat 11, Scottish National Party 6, DUP 4, Independent 2, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Alliance 1.