HC Deb 04 March 1991 vol 187 c80W
Mr. Hinchliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what action he is taking to assist persons on low incomes to enhance their pension levels.

Miss Widdecombe

Appropriate personal pensions were introduced in 1988 to give people the chance of contracting-out of the state earnings-related pension scheme and investing that money in their own pension arrangement. They have been further assisted in building up their pension by the extra 2 per cent. incentive which is payable for the five years from 1988 to 1993.