Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 105772

State Retirement Pensions: Women

Tabled: 14 January 2026
Answered: 21 January 2026

Question

Douglas McAllister

LabourWest Dunbartonshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has considered options for schemes to deliver compensation in line with the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's report on Women's State Pension age communications.

Answer

Torsten Bell
The Secretary of State announced in his oral statement of 11 November 2025 that we will retake the decision made in December 2024 as it relates to the communications on State Pension age. This was because findings from a 2007 report had not been drawn to ...

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