The anger felt by a St Clears pensioner caught up in the Equitable Life pension scandal has been raised in Parliament by local MP Simon Hart.

Mr Hart, who is supporting the policyholders' battle for compensation following the collapse of the life insurance company, was speaking during the second reading of the Equitable Life Payments Bill.

He called on the Government to ensure that Equitable Life pensioners are fairly reimbursed.

"Financial institutions, it seems, are no longer trusted," he told the House of Commons. "Young people do not know where to go and older people do not know who to trust, so it falls to all of us to ensure that confidence is restored.

"Resolving that problem was a moral dilemma, rather than a financial one, for the previous Government, and it is for the current Government too."

He told fellow MPs that one of the many pensioners from Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire who had got in touch with him about the issue was Jerry Roberson of St Clears.

"Mr Roberson wrote that "if justice isn't done on this issue I don't see I will ever want to cast a vote in a General Election or ever again"," said Mr Hart.

"I suggest that it is the moral obligation of all parties and all Members to put our party political interests aside just for one moment, to ensure that we can bring the problem to a fair and sensible conclusion."