Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 22 February 2018 to Question 128116, what the average time taken is between (a) a complaint being received on the equalisation of the state pension age and (b) the completion of checks on that complaint to establish it can be accepted for examination by her Department's independent case examiner.

The average time taken from receipt of a complaint about the equalisation of the state pension age, to the point at which the Independent Case Examiner’s Office makes a decision on whether it can be accepted for examination is currently 4 weeks.