00:00We come to the first statement on pensions and I call the Secretary of State.
00:05The evidence shows that the vast majority of 1950s-born women already knew the state.
00:10Pension age was increasing, thanks to a wide range of public information, including...
00:15...through leaflets, education campaigns, information on GP surgeries...
00:20...TV, radio, cinema and online.
00:24To specifically...
00:25...to compensate only those women who suffered injustice would require a scheme...
00:30...that could reliably verify the individual circumstances of millions of women.
00:35That includes whether someone genuinely didn't know their state pension age was changing...
00:40...and whether they would have read and remembered a letter from many years ago and acted differently.
00:45It would not be practical to set up a compensation scheme to assess...
00:50...conclusively the answers to these questions.
00:52And that is why, Madam Deputy Speaker...
00:55...in taking this new decision, the Government has come to the same conclusion on compensation...
01:00...as my Right Honourable Friend, the previous Secretary of State, announced in December.
01:05...of 2024.
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