SNP MP Seamus Logan highlighted how his party colleague Graham Leadbitter had recently asked Sir Keir Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions about an update for WASPI women.

DWP WASPI compensation update with £2,950 payments 'kicked down road'

by · Birmingham Live

Department for Work and Pensions has been accused of "kicking WASPI compensation" worth £2,950 "down the road. During DWP questions in the House of Commons on Monday, SNP MP Seamus Logan highlighted how his party colleague Graham Leadbitter had recently asked Sir Keir Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions about an update for WASPI women.

Mr Leadbitter was told that the Government were working “at pace”. He said: “Since then, 1,400 or 1,500 more women have died without justice or compensation. Will the Minister tell us what working ‘at pace’ means and give us a timeline?”

Pensions Minister Emma Reynolds told the Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP how she was the “first Minister for eight years to meet the WASPI campaigners to listen to their concerns” and that the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) “took six years to investigate six cases”.

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She added: “We are working at pace on this issue. We hope to come to the House soon - if the hon. Gentleman will listen to my answer - to update him and the public on what we will do next.” In a post on social media shortly after DWP questions the WASPI campaign accused the DWP of “kicking the can down the road”.

The post on X, formerly Twitter said: “Once again @EmmaforWycombe (Pensions Minister Emma Reynolds) says an announcement on #WASPI compensation will be ‘soon’. Without a firm deadline this is just kicking the can down the road, and more women will die without compensation.”

"when will this actually happen. All these people deserve to be appropriately compensated. Response expected 'soon' 'imminently'," another follower fumed. A second raged: "Check out the closing statement today on behalf of Post Office victims....it will show exactly how #1950s women are/will be treated re compensation. Perhaps high time for #Waspi to work with others & learn to play Hardball. £2-3k is completely unacceptable as compensation."