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State Retirement Pensions: Women

Asked by Clive LewisLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 21 January 2026UIN 105262

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of State Pension age changes for 1950s-born women living in Norwich South constituency.

Answered by Torsten Bell

All women born since 6 April 1950 have been affected by changes to State Pension age. Estimates can be made using ONS 2021 Census Data on how many women born in the 1950s resided in each constituency in that year.

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