State Retirement Pensions: Age
Commons · Question 5845 · Tabled 1 Jun 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 9 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by Zöe Franklin
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the state pension age to 60 for women and 65 for men.
Answer
Answered by Torsten Bell, 9 Jun 2026
The pace of State Pension age increases was hugely, and unfairly, accelerated by the Liberal Democrat and Conservative Coalition Government. The Government is required to regularly review State Pension age under the Pensions Act 2014. The Government’s thi...