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1327761

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2021
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what date her Department plans to complete settling outstanding underpayments of married women's state pension.
	tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
	uin	7171
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>Written statements about the State Pension Correction Exercise were provided to both houses on 4 March 2021 and 21 April 2021. The statement of 21 April 2021 explained that The Department for Work &amp; Pensions aims to complete the correction activity by the end of 2023.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-03-04/debates/21030423000012/StatePensionCorrectionExercise" target="_blank">https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-03-04/debates/21030423000012/StatePensionCorrectionExercise</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-04-21/debates/21042129000008/StatePensionUnderpayments" target="_blank">https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-04-21/debates/21042129000008/StatePensionUnderpayments</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 07/06/2021 13:00:51 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

1327762

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2021
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many married women have made claims to claim the underpayment of their state pension to date.
	tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
	uin	7172
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>Written statements about the State Pension Correction Exercise were provided to both houses on 4 March 2021 and 21 April 2021. The Department for Work &amp; Pensions intends to publish further information on the progress of the State Pension correction activity around the time of the next fiscal event.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-03-04/debates/21030423000012/StatePensionCorrectionExercise" target="_blank">https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-03-04/debates/21030423000012/StatePensionCorrectionExercise</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-04-21/debates/21042129000008/StatePensionUnderpayments" target="_blank">https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-04-21/debates/21042129000008/StatePensionUnderpayments</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 07/06/2021 13:03:23 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

448444

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department has made available to women born in the 1950s who are affected by recent changes in the age at which they become eligible for the state pension.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	903352
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>Working age benefits are available for those who have not yet reached State Pension age. A concession of £1.1bn was made, and 81% of those affected will see a delay of one year or less; and for the rest, the delay will be no more than 18 months. There are no plans for further transitional arrangements.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 01/02/2016 17:04:18 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

806755

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what they are doing to ensure that pension rights for women are equal to those for men, with particular reference to those women born in the 1950s and affected by the changes to the state pension under the Pensions Act 1995 and Pensions Act 2011.
	tabling member printed	Baroness McGregor-Smith
	uin	HL4215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>Women retiring today can still expect to receive the State Pension for 23.5 years on average – almost three years longer than men. Even after equalising women’s State Pension age (SPa) with men’s, women will spend on average around 2 years more in receipt of their State Pension (SP) because of their longer life expectancy.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The new State Pension is actually much more generous for many women, who have been historically worse off under the old system. By 2030, over 3m women stand to gain an average of £550 extra per year as a result of these changes. If SPa had not been equalised, women would spend on average over 40% of their adult life in retirement.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 19/12/2017 17:59:54 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4554 label Biography information for Baroness McGregor-Smith

713959

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the financial effect on women of recent changes in the pension age
	tabling member constituency	Lewes
	tabling member printed	Maria Caulfield
	uin	909488
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2017 answer text <p>Women reaching State Pension age in 2016/17 are estimated to receive more State Pension on average over their lifetime than women ever have before.</p><p> </p><p>By 2030, over 3 million women stand to gain an average of £550 per year through the introduction of the new State Pension.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 27/03/2017 16:17:37 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield

454337

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average financial cost is to an individual woman who has seen her state pension age increased by the maximum 18 months.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	28107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>Women born between 6 December 1953 and 5 October 1954 will have their state pension age increased by the maximum 18 months.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to assess the income of every individual due to their differing characteristics. The impact on a small number of hypothetical cases was modelled for the 2011 Pensions Act Impact Assessment.</p><p> </p><p>These show how women born in 1954, affected by the maximum 18 months increase, could see their total state and private pension income change, compared to the previously legislated timetable.</p><p> </p><p>Women who continue to work will also receive additional income from employment. It may also be possible for women to receive other working age benefits.</p><p> </p><p>The impacts can be found in Table 8 of Annex A of the Impact Assessment at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pensions-act-2011-impact-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pensions-act-2011-impact-assessment</a></p><p> </p><p>The Department published analysis on the impact of the new State Pension (nSP) in January 2016 showing that three million women gain on average over £11pw extra State Pension by 2030:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-state-pension-impact-on-an-individuals-pension-entitlement-longer-term-effects" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-state-pension-impact-on-an-individuals-pension-entitlement-longer-term-effects</a></p><p>On average women will still receive 10% more new State Pension than men over their lifetime.</p><p> </p><p>The change in State Pension age is designed to equalise State Pension age between men and women and to remove a long standing inequality, while the new State Pension improves outcomes for women, bringing forward by a decade the point at which women have equivalent State Pension outcomes to men (by the early 2040s instead of the early-2050s).</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/03/2016 16:50:27 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

707712

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his most recent estimate is of the number of women in (a) Camberwell and Peckham constituency, (b) the London Borough of Southwark and (c) Greater London affected by the increase to the State Pension Age for women born after 6 April 1951.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	66435
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p>Women born between 6 April 1950 and 5 April 1953 were affected by State Pension age equalisation under the Pensions Act 1995.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Act 2011 accelerated the equalisation of State Pension age, and included transitional arrangements limiting State Pension age delays, affecting women born between 6 April 1953 and 5 December 1953. It also brought forward the increase in State Pension age from 65 to 66 which affected women born between 6 December 1953 and 5 April 1960.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the numbers affected by constituent country, parliamentary constituency or local authority is not held by the Department for Work and Pensions. However, the most recent population breakdowns for England and its parliamentary constituencies by age can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/parliamentaryconstituencymidyearpopulationestimates" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/parliamentaryconstituencymidyearpopulationestimates</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Population breakdowns by local authority can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland</a></p><p> </p><p>The House of Commons library have produced a paper estimating the number of women affected by the Pensions Act 2011 (those born between 6 April 1953 and 5 December 1953) by constituency, which can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7405/CBP-07405constituencyestimates.xlsx" target="_blank">http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7405/CBP-07405constituencyestimates.xlsx</a></p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 08/03/2017 11:05:23 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

749698

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of women born in the 1950s who are subject to changes in the state pension age in (a) Oxford West and Abingdon constituency and (b) Oxfordshire.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	3670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>Women born between 6 April 1950 and 5 April 1953 were affected by State Pension age equalisation under the Pensions Act 1995.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Act 2011 accelerated the equalisation of State Pension age, and included transitional arrangements limiting State Pension age delays, affecting women born between 6 April 1953 and 5 December 1953. It also brought forward the increase in State Pension age from 65 to 66 which affected women born between 6 December 1953 and 5 April 1960.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the numbers affected by constituent country, parliamentary constituency or local authority is not held by the Department for Work and Pensions. However, the most recent population breakdowns for England and its parliamentary constituencies by age can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/parliamentaryconstituencymidyearpopulationestimates" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/parliamentaryconstituencymidyearpopulationestimates</a></p><p> </p><p>Population breakdowns by local authority, region and country can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland</a></p><p> </p><p>The House of Commons library have produced a paper estimating the number of women affected by the Pensions Act 2011 (those born between 6 April 1953 and 5 April 1960) by constituency, which can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7405/CBP-07405constituencyestimates.xlsx" target="_blank">http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7405/CBP-07405constituencyestimates.xlsx</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/07/2017 10:06:11 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

746123

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of women in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry local authority area, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England who will be affected by changes to the state pension age for women born in the 1950s.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
	uin	1557
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>Women born between 6 April 1950 and 5 April 1953 were affected by State Pension age equalisation under the Pensions Act 1995.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Act 2011 accelerated the equalisation of State Pension age, and included transitional arrangements limiting State Pension age delays, affecting women born between 6 April 1953 and 5 December 1953. It also brought forward the increase in State Pension age from 65 to 66 which affected women born between 6 December 1953 and 5 April 1960.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the numbers affected by constituent country, parliamentary constituency or local authority is not held by the Department for Work and Pensions. However, the most recent population breakdowns for England and its parliamentary constituencies by age can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/parliamentaryconstituencymidyearpopulationestimates" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/parliamentaryconstituencymidyearpopulationestimates</a></p><p> </p><p>Population breakdowns by local authority, region and country can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland</a></p><p> </p><p>The House of Commons library have produced a paper estimating the number of women affected by the Pensions Act 2011 (those born between 6 April 1953 and 5 <del class="ministerial">December 1953</del><ins class="ministerial"> April 1960</ins>) by constituency, which can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7405/CBP-07405constituencyestimates.xlsx" target="_blank">http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7405/CBP-07405constituencyestimates.xlsx</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 03/07/2017 14:01:01 question first ministerially corrected 05/07/2017 08:38:48 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 1264 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

528165

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he holds information by parliamentary constituency on the number of people affected by transitional arrangements for women born after 6 April 1951 caused by the change in the state pension age.
	tabling member constituency	Redditch
	tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
	uin	41019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2016 answer text <p>Women born between 6 April 1950 and 5 April 1953 were affected by State Pension age equalisation under the Pensions Act 1995.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Act 2011 accelerated the equalisation of State Pension age, and included transitional arrangements limiting State Pension age delays, affecting women born between 6 April 1953 and 5 December 1953. It also brought forward the increase in State Pension age from 65 to 66 which affected women born between 6 Dec 1953 and 5 April 1960.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the numbers affected by parliamentary constituency is not held by the Department for Work and Pensions. However, a population breakdown of women by age at mid-2014 (women with birthdates in 1951 would have been aged 62 or 63 at this point) by constituency can be found in the Office for National Statistics’ data set of Parliamentary Constituency Mid-year Population Estimates for England and Wales:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/parliamentaryconstituencymidyearpopulationestimates" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/parliamentaryconstituencymidyearpopulationestimates</a></p><p> </p><p>For Scotland:</p><p><a href="http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/population-estimates/special-area-population-estimates/spc-population-estimates" target="_blank">http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/population-estimates/special-area-population-estimates/spc-population-estimates</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/06/2016 10:55:35 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley