Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 23387

State Retirement Pensions: Age

Tabled: 24 April 2024
Answered: 1 May 2024

Question

Sir Mark Hendrick

Labour (Co-op)Preston

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of lowering the State Pension age to 60.

Answer

As stated in our previous response to the same question published on 24 April 2024, the Government has no plans to make such an assessment. Changes to State Pension age were made over a series of Acts by successive governments from 1995 onwards, following...

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