Question follow-through · 100618
State Retirement Pensions: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to take steps to provide compensation to women impacted by changes to the state pension age.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 29 Dec 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to take steps to provide compensation to women impacted by changes to the state pension age.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Dec 2025
Answer published
As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced in his oral statement on 11 November 2025, we have decided to retake the decision made last December as it relates to the communications on state pension age. The work is underway, and we will updat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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