Written questions

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...