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State Retirement Pensions: Women

Asked by Samantha NiblettLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 22 January 2026UIN 106702

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the UK’s compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in relation to women born in the 1950s affected by chan

Answered by Torsten Bell

The UK is fully compliant with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, including in relation to women born in the 1950s affected by changes to the State Pension age.

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