Gregory Campbell has claimed women born in the 1950s adversely affected by changes to the state pension age will conclude the British Government were prepared to resolve the pension demands of mineworkers but not theirs.

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00:00Many, many WASPI women will be appalled at the report or the statement that the

00:04Secretary of State has made, but they will look at the proceedings today and would

00:08they be right in concluding that this government were prepared to resolve the

00:13pensions of mine workers but not of WASPI women?

00:17True of state.

00:18We are prepared to take difficult decisions if we would think that they

00:22are fair and they are right and that's why we've taken this approach on the

00:26issue of how the state pension age was communicated between 2004 and 2007.

00:32We agree with what he says about maladministration and for the three

00:36action points that I have said, to make sure we have a clear and detailed

00:39action plan to learn all the lessons, to give people sufficient notice in

00:42future of their state pension age increases and to have a detailed, detailed

00:46program of communication about the state pension going forward.

00:50Those I think are firm actions to show that we have learnt the lessons

00:53from this report.

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