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State Retirement Pensions: Age

Asked by Zöe FranklinLiberal DemocratDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 9 June 2026UIN 5845

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the state pension age to 60 for women and 65 for men.

Answered by Torsten Bell

The pace of State Pension age increases was hugely, and unfairly, accelerated by the Liberal Democrat and Conservative Coalition Government.

The Government is required to regularly review State Pension age under the Pensions Act 2014. The Government’s third State Pension age Review is underway and will assess the rules for State Pension age based on the latest life expectancy data and other evidence.

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