division_name: Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b68.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The UK has one of the least generous state pensions in the developed world. The triple lock was introduced to close this gap and lift pensioners out of poverty. Suspending it will only halt our progress. This is a dangerous precedent. If the government is allowed to pick and choose when to apply the triple lock, the result will be lower state pensions for future generations and more pensioners experiencing hardship. This decision will hit old and young alike. A race to the bottom on pensions helps no one.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b68.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Our pensions are safer as part of the UK&#8230;We are living longer and working longer than ever before. People want to know that their pensions are safe. The UK State Pension means that everyone in the UK can get the same basic State Pension. It is a great example of how we share good things across the UK.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b68.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We all pay in when we are working, and we all benefit when we retire. This means we can support all our pensioners in the same way whether times are good or bad. Scotland&#8217;s people are  getting older at a faster rate than the rest of the UK. This is good but it means that if we leave the UK we could have a difficult choice to make&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b70.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;this House, while recognising the extraordinary circumstances of the covid-19 pandemic, declines to give a Second Reading to the Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill because it represents a broken manifesto commitment made by the Government at the last General Election, fails to address the impact of the pandemic on the two million pensioners living in poverty and fails to increase key benefits, such as making permanent the uplift to Universal Credit.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b74.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We will continue to advertise it in a different way but I am not anticipating a big action plan, no.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b74.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;fails to increase key benefits, such as making permanent the uplift to Universal Credit.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b77.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to restore trust in our institutions and in how our democracy operates.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-01-15">15 January</phrase> 2020; Vol. 669, c. 1019.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b79.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we are committed to the triple lock&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b81.2/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;You make a third of your money when you do overtime for the benefit you lose, so I am paid &#163;3 an hour in real terms. While I do take the overtime offered to me if I am able to do it, I can also understand why others don&#8217;t. Making up &#163;20 a week is not as easy as many would have us believe today.&#8221;</p>