Question follow-through · 25860

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral statement of 17 December 2024, Official Report, Column 167, on Women’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO Report, if she will publish the internal Equality Impact Assessmen

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
22 Jan 2025
Target answer date
24 Jan 2025
Answer
29 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 22 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral statement of 17 December 2024, Official Report, Column 167, on Women’s State Pension Age Communication: PHSO Report, if she will publish the internal Equality Impact Assessmen

  2. 24 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 29 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Equality Analysis requested was published as part of the Government response to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s Investigation into Women’s State Pension age communications and associated issues, which is available at the following link: G...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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