Question follow-through · 3744

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has undertaken a comparative assessment of previous Government compensation schemes when assessing options for financial redress for women affected by changes to the State Pension

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
21 May 2026
Target answer date
1 Jun 2026
Answer
4 Jun 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has undertaken a comparative assessment of previous Government compensation schemes when assessing options for financial redress for women affected by changes to the State Pension

  2. 1 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    We have taken the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s report seriously and given the findings the close examination that they deserved. We have set out the detailed reasons for our decision in our new response, on the 29 January, which has been p...

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