Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints submitted to the Independent Case Examiner relating to women affected by measures taken to equalise the state pension age have been upheld; and what proportion of the total number of complaints received by that office that number represents.

At the end of August 2018, the Independent Case Examiner’s Office had accepted 2,683 complaints from women affected by measures taken to equalise state pension age and concluded 151 investigations into this group of complaints, none of which were upheld on the main element of complaint.