HC Deb 26 March 1976 vol 908 c313W
Mr. Greville Janner

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether she will seek powers to render discrimination against men unlawful in the provision of facilities to women pensioners at the age of 60 years and to men pensioners only at the age of 65 years.

Mr. Meacher

As my right hon. Friend has made clear on a number of occasions, we have no proposals to change the present pensionable ages of men and women; and it is at these ages that people can become eligible for the facilities to which my hon. and learned Friend refers. The Sex Discrimination Act does not apply to the different pensionable ages of men and women since these are laid down in the Social Security Act 1975 which came into force before the Sex Discrimination Act.