Question follow-through · 37136
State Retirement Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2025 to Question 23268 on State Retirement Pensions, what information her Department holds on the number of people who are (a) eligible for the Category D pension pa
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 14 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Social security and pensions
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- State Retirement Pensions: Northern Ireland · 25 Jun 2025
- State Retirement Pensions: Northern Ireland · 1 Jul 2025
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2025 to Question 23268 on State Retirement Pensions, what information her Department holds on the number of people who are (a) eligible for the Category D pension pa
14 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Mar 2025
Answer published
DWP is responsible for the State Pension administered in Great Britain while the Department for Communities is responsible for the State Pension administered in Northern Ireland. As of the quarter ending August 2024, there were a total of 89,360 people in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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