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State Retirement Pensions: Women

Asked by Luke TaylorLiberal DemocratDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 29 December 2025UIN 100617

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will implement the recommendations of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s 2025 report entitled Women’s state pension age: our findings for the Department for Work and Pensions’ communication of changes.

Answered by Torsten Bell

As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced in his oral statement on 11 November 2025, we have decided to retake the decision made last December as it relates to the communications on state pension age.

The work is underway, and we will update the House on the decision as soon as a conclusion is reached.

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