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State Retirement Pensions: Women

Asked by Wendy ChamberlainLiberal DemocratDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 4 June 2026UIN 4547

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has undertaken modelling of the estimated cost of potential compensation schemes for women affected by changes to the State Pension age.

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 Library of the House.

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