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State Retirement Pensions: Women

Asked by Edward MorelloLiberal DemocratDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 8 September 2025UIN 72546

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department last estimated the number of women born in the 1950s affected by State Pension age changes in West Dorset constituency.

Answered by Torsten Bell

All women born since 6 April 1950 have been affected by changes to State Pension age. No specific estimate has been made for the number of women born in the 1950s in West Dorset constituency. However, estimates can be made with 2021 census data.

ONS population estimates indicate that in 2021 there were approximately 8,500 females born in the 1950s resident in the West Dorset constituency in that year.

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