Question follow-through · 32741
State Retirement Pensions: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if she will reverse the Government’s decision not to provide pension compensation to women who were born in the 1950s and 1960s.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 21 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 28 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if she will reverse the Government’s decision not to provide pension compensation to women who were born in the 1950s and 1960s.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Feb 2025
Answer published
We carefully considered the Ombudsman’s findings to ensure our decision was fair and based on the evidence.We have accepted the Ombudsman’s finding that there was a 28-month delay in sending out letters and for this we have apologised. However, we do not ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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