STATE RETIREMENT PENSIONS PAYABLE TO PEOPLE RESIDENT ABROAD

As this motion is using historical data, we may not have the record of the original ordering, in which case signatories are listed alphabetically.

This motion has subsequently been withdrawn by the tabling Member.

This is an amendment to an existing motion

This motion was originally tabled by Rev Dr William McCrea on 28 February 1997. This is amendment number 1.

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Suggested amendment

leave out from '1996-7)' to end and add 'and calls for the state pension to be paid to all eligible people wherever they live at the same rate.'.

Original motion text

That this House welcomes the Third Report of the Social Security Committee into the Uprating of State Retirement Pensions Payable to People Resident Abroad (HC 143 of Session 1996-97) and strongly supports its concluding recommendation: That there should be a free vote at prime time to allow honourable Members to express their opinion on the principle of whether the Government should pay upratings to some or all of those pensioners living in countries where upratings are not paid at present.

The first 6 Members who have signed to support the motion are the sponsors. The primary sponsor is generally the person who tabled the motion and has responsibility for it. The date shown is when the Member signed the motion.

Smyth, The Rev Martin

Ulster Unionist Party

6 March 1997