Question follow-through · 56916
State Retirement Pensions: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support women affected by changes to the State Pension age.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support women affected by changes to the State Pension age.
5 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2025
Answer published
This Government remains absolutely committed to supporting pensioners and giving them the dignity and security they deserve in retirement.The State Pension is the foundation of state support for older people. In 2025-26 we will spend £174.9 billion on ben...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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