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State Retirement Pensions: Women

Asked by Adrian RamsayGreen PartyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 27 February 2025UIN 32457

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women born (a) on or (b) after April 6 1950 have been impacted by the changes to pension age in Waveney Valley constituency.

Answered by Torsten Bell

As of the 2021 census, there were approximately 33,700 women who were born in 1950 or later, in the Waveney Valley constituency. Of these, approximately 6,900 were born in the 1950s.

It is not possible to accurately calculate the exact number of women born after April 6, 1950.

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