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Westminster must heed commissioner The UK government should be forced to listen to the Welsh commissioner for older people, charities have said.

The Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill, which received its second reading in the Lords last week, does not oblige the government to respond to concerns raised by the commissioner over UK-wide matters like pensions and benefits.

The commissioner only has the right to raise issues with the Welsh assembly, which can pass them on to the UK government to consider.

Age Concern Cymru's Sarah Stone, said: "The [UK] government should at least make a publicly available response of some kind to what the assembly says."