Question follow-through · 106850

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 on 1950s-born women living in Epsom and Ewell constituency.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
19 Jan 2026
Target answer date
21 Jan 2026
Answer
26 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 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 on 1950s-born women living in Epsom and Ewell constituency.

  2. 21 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    All women born since 6 April 1950 have been affected by changes to State Pension age. Estimates can be made with ONS 2022 Census Data of how many women born in the 1950s were resident in each constituency in that year.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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