Question follow-through · 93032
Poverty: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the report by Independent Age entitled Too Little Too Late, published on 15 May 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the report by Independent Age entitled Too Little Too Late, published on 15 May 2025.
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Government is absolutely committed to supporting pensioners and giving them the dignity and security they deserve in retirement. From the end of this Parliament, as a result of our commitment to protect the Triple Lock, spending on State Pensions is f...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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