Written questions

State Retirement Pensions: Women

2026-05-20 · Department for Work and Pensions · 3744 · Official question

Sir John Hayes

Question

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

Answer

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...