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Pensions: Gender

Asked by Yuan YangLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 2 April 2025UIN 42180

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her Department's data on the gender pensions gap in private pensions of the ONS's latest release of the Wealth and Assets Survey, published on 24 January 2025.

Answered by Torsten Bell

The Department is committed to both monitoring and narrowing the Gender Pension Gap and we are currently exploring the latest Wealth and Asset survey, provided by the ONS, with the aim of publishing an update on the Gender Pension Gap publication in due course.

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