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State Retirement Pensions: Women

Asked by Sir John HayesConservativeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 28 April 2026UIN 128657

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the constitutional implications of rejecting the recommendations of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman report on changes to women's state pension age, published 21 March 2024.

Answered by Torsten Bell

We have taken the PHSO’s report seriously and given the findings the close examination that they deserved. We have set out the detailed reasons for our decision in our new response, on the 29 January, which has been placed in the Libraries of the House.

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