Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what resources are available to the Independent Case Examiner for investigating complaints on the equalisation of the state pension age in terms of (a) number of staff, (b) operating budget and (c) cross departmental resources.

The Independent Case Examiner’s Office does not have a dedicated operating budget, or cross departmental resource available, for processing complaints concerning the equalisation of State Pension age. However there is a dedicated team of three investigation case managers tasked with investigating this group of complaints.