My colleagues and others have already established what the issue is here. To recap, the UK Government changed the rules to equalise the pension age for men and women without any consideration that men and women born in the 1950s faced a very different environment, with women facing considerable legal restrictions on their ability to achieve fair pay and access to pension funds. They then failed to communicate these changes to those likely to lose out—a communications effort so poor that there's been speculation that those in charge of women's pensions ended up running the Brexit campaign three years ago. [Laughter.] I may joke, but when it's been pointed out, the injustices and hardship that this is causing to these women, the UK Government has just ignored them. In fact, worse than ignored: it's imposed an additional hardship on mixed-age couples by denying many of them pension credit benefit and switching them onto the lower value universal credit.

And isn't it interesting timing, how we heard yesterday from a House of Commons committee that has seen evidence to suggest that, as a result of 86 per cent of the austerity cuts that have hit women, some of those women are turning to sex work? We can't just assume that this is only an issue for younger women. How many WASPI women, I wonder, have been forced to take this route?

All of this has really been a catalogue of poor decision making and trivialising the concerns of people that's been undertaken by a Government that, time and time again, demonstrates that it cares very little for the financial well-being of women. It makes numerous changes that disproportionately affect poorer women, and this is one of them. And people wonder why we need to make the apparatus of government, both political and administrative, more reflective of the society that it serves. Put simply, more women in senior decision-making roles in Whitehall and Westminster, and, of course, this is unlikely to happen, but if it had happened, this issue would have been addressed far sooner and it would not have been dismissed as a niche issue. So, our motion here is simple: let's support this incredible campaign and correct an injustice. [Applause.]