Question follow-through · 42180

Pensions: Gender

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her Department's data on the gender pensions gap in private pensions of the ONS's latest release of the Wealth and Assets Survey, publish

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
31 Mar 2025
Answer
2 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her Department's data on the gender pensions gap in private pensions of the ONS's latest release of the Wealth and Assets Survey, publish

  2. 31 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The Department is committed to both monitoring and narrowing the Gender Pension Gap and we are currently exploring the latest Wealth and Asset survey, provided by the ONS, with the aim of publishing an update on the Gender Pension Gap publication in due c...

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