Question follow-through · 106055
State Retirement Pensions: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of State Pension age changes for 1950s-born women on woman in Tiverton and Minehead constituency.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of State Pension age changes for 1950s-born women on woman in Tiverton and Minehead constituency.
19 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2026
Answer published
All women born since 6 April 1950 have been affected by changes to State Pension age. Estimates can be made using ONS 2021 Census Data on how many women born in the 1950s resided in each constituency in that year.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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