Question follow-through · 15753

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of women born in the 1950s affected by State Pension age changes in each constituency in (a) Scotland and (b) Northern Ireland.

answeredKirsty BlackmanDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
27 Nov 2024
Answer
9 Dec 2024 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 25 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of women born in the 1950s affected by State Pension age changes in each constituency in (a) Scotland and (b) Northern Ireland.

  2. 27 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 9 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    In Scotland, as of the 2022 census there were the following numbers of 1950s-born women in each Scottish constituency: ConstituencyFemales aged 63 to 72 in 2022East Renfrewshire6,086Na h-Eileanan an Iar1,914Midlothian5,569North Ayrshire and Arran6,866Orkn...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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