MPs at Westminster have voted to support handing compensation to Waspi women following a debate in the Commons.

The SNP forced a vote on a bill presented by group leader Stephen Flynn on Tuesday which would require the Labour Government to compensate 1950s-born women who lost out amid changes to the state pension age.

Last March, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) recommended compensation of £1000 to £2950 per person after historic failures in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) meant pension age changes were not properly communicated.

Scottish Labour MP Brian Leishman – who urged his colleagues to back the bill – will form part of the team taking the bill forward.

The division list showed 10 Labour MPs offer their support to the proposed law to establish a compensation scheme. Leishman was listed as the only Labour MP from Scotland to offer his backing to the bill.

The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs chose not to back the bill and instead abstained.

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