Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints relating to women affected by measures taken to equalise the state pension age the office of the Independent Case Examiner is currently dealing with; and how many such cases that office has processed in (a) the last 12 months and (b) the last 24 months.

At the end of August 2018, the Independent Case Examiner’s Office had 3,192 live complaints from women affected by measures taken to equalise the state pension age, at various stages of its process.

We have interpreted the reference to ‘processed’ as meaning closed or completed. The ICE Office received the first of this group of complaints in October 2016 and one investigation report was issued, and in the period September 2017 to August 2018 150 investigation reports were issued.