Manuela Perteghella MP – 7th July 2025

8th July 2025

The MP for Stratford on Avon manages to insert WASPI into her question during a debate on The Pensions Schemes bill in the Commons. Her exact words are recorded in Hansard.

“The most high-profile pension injustice is the one affecting the WASPI women—Women Against State Pension Equality Campaign—who saw rapid and steep increases to their state pension age without adequate notice, and for whom the Government have failed to provide adequate compensation despite the instruction of the ombudsman to do so. What is the point of re-establishing the ombudsman’s legal powers and restoring them as a pension court if the Government refuse to listen to such judgments? That is by no means an exhaustive list; many other pension scandals need addressing.”