Question follow-through · 98625

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the time taken to decide on a compensation scheme for women impacted by State Pension age changes on those women.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
9 Dec 2025
Target answer date
11 Dec 2025
Answer
17 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the time taken to decide on a compensation scheme for women impacted by State Pension age changes on those women.

  2. 11 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced in his Oral Statement of 11 November that we will retake the decision made last December as it relates to the communications on state pension age. Information that was not considered at the time of the...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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