Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will set out (a) the number of complaints relating to the equalisation of the state pension age that her Department's independent case examiner is currently considering and (b) the number of cases that the independent case examiner has resolved since 2 October 2017.

(a) Details of the number of complaints relating to the equalisation of state pension age, that are currently (as at 20^th February 2018) being considered by the Independent Case Examiner’s Office are detailed below:

• 369 complaints undergoing checks to establish if they can be accepted for examination
• 1,800 complaints awaiting investigation
• 36 complaints being investigated

(b) Since 2 October 2017, the Independent Case Examiner’s Office has issued 44 investigation reports into complaints about the equalisation of state pension age.