{"value":{"id":1122569,"memberId":3349,"member":null,"memberRole":"The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions","uin":"HLWS1483","dateMade":"2019-04-24T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":29,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Work and Pensions","title":"Social Security Benefits Uprating Order 2019 – Lords Debate Corrections","text":"<p>I would like to correct the following points I made during the Social Security Benefits Up-rating 2019/20 debate on 5 March 2019 and apologise to the House for these inadvertent errors:</p><ul><li>I said that “The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2019 reflects the Government’s continuing commitment to: increase the basic and full rate of the new state pensions by the triple lock.” I should have said that “The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2019 reflects the Government’s continuing commitment to: increase the basic State Pension and the full rate of the new State Pension by the triple lock.”</li><li>I said that “The triple lock on the state pension will provide an extra £3.6 billion for pensioners.” I should have said that “The triple lock on the state pension will provide an extra £3.06 billion for pensioners.”</li></ul><p>The transcript to the original debate can be found here: <a href=\"https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2019-03-05/debates/9CE6BC91-2176-4AFD-A7BC-1F7F70AE7320/SocialSecurityBenefitsUp-RatingOrder2019\" target=\"_blank\">https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2019-03-05/debates/9CE6BC91-2176-4AFD-A7BC-1F7F70AE7320/SocialSecurityBenefitsUp-RatingOrder2019</a></p>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1122569","method":"GET"}]}