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State Retirement Pensions: Women

Commons · Question 115262 · Tabled 23 Feb 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 26 Feb 2026

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Asked by Steve Witherden

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Statement of 29 January 2026, what assessment he has made of the reasons why the findings of the 2007 research report did not lead to a targeted public communications campaign to a

Answer

Answered by Torsten Bell, 26 Feb 2026

The Secretary of State reviewed the 2007 Report on Automatic Pension Forecasts before coming to his decision on the Ombudsman’s investigation. The 2007 Report concluded that “overall…the evidence suggests negligible influence of the APF on pensions knowle...