Question follow-through · 14421

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had discussions with the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman on the contents of it's report entitled Women’s State Pension age: our findings on injustice and associated issues, pu

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
14 Nov 2024
Target answer date
18 Nov 2024
Answer
22 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 14 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had discussions with the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman on the contents of it's report entitled Women’s State Pension age: our findings on injustice and associated issues, pu

  2. 18 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 22 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The Secretary of State has not had discussions with the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman since the report into Women’s State Pension age was published on 21 March 2024. As Pensions Minister, on behalf of the ministerial team, I had a meeting wit...

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