Question follow-through · 108251

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of engaging in structured, law-based mediation with representatives of women born in the 1950s.

answeredChris LawDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
28 Jan 2026
Answer
3 Feb 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 26 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of engaging in structured, law-based mediation with representatives of women born in the 1950s.

  2. 28 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    On 29 January 2026 my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced the Government’s new decision on the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s (PHSO) investigation into the way that State Pension age changes were communicated to women born in ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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