Question follow-through · 103749
State Retirement Pensions: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will accept the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s compensation recommendations in regards to the WASPI women.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 7 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jan 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will accept the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s compensation recommendations in regards to the WASPI women.
12 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jan 2026
Answer published
As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State set out on 11 November 2025, we are retaking the decision made in December 2024 as it relates to the communications on State Pension age. The process to retake the decision is underway. We will update the Hou...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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