Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 105743

State Retirement Pensions: Women

Tabled: 14 January 2026

Answered: 21 January 2026

Question

Dame Chi Onwurah

Labour — Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Statement UIN HCWS1044 on 11 November 2025, what procedures and circumstances led to the 2007 research report not being provided to his predecessor.

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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