Pensions

Plans to end decades of bias against women in the pension system and give them a fairer income in old age will be announced by the Conservatives.

David Willetts, the shadow pensions secretary, outlined a radical overhaul of the pension system under which the role of women both at home and at work will be recognised in their income later in life.

Government Response: Department for Work and Pensions

Alan Johnson, secretary of state for Work and Pensions, said:  "Conservative pension policy is yet again being made on the hoof.  Their pension policy was laid out some 15 months ago, but now, with Labour raising the important issue of women, they suddenly tack on some tentative piecemeal proposals as an afterthought.