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State Retirement Pensions: Women

Asked by Siân BerryGreen PartyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 26 January 2026UIN 106820

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to make an assessment of the potential impact of State Pension age changes on 1950s-born women living in Brighton Pavilion 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 with ONS 2022 Census Data of how many women born in the 1950s were resident in each constituency in that year.

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