MPs have unanimously urged the government to consider creating a ‘minister for older people’.
The decision was reached after a cross-party group of backbenchers, who say older people in society are often overlooked by politicians, launched a Commons debate on the subject.
Under the last Labour government, broadcaster Dame Joan Bakewell served as an older people’s ‘tsar’.
But MPs said this responsibility should be handed to a cabinet minister.
Opening the debate, Conservative MP Penny Mordaunt argued that this would ensure that the cabinet would take into consideration the impact on older people of every policy decision.
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