Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the state pension age will increase to (a) 67 in 2026-28 and (b) 68 in 2044-46.

The increase to age 67 in 2026-2028 will continue as set out in Pensions Act 2014. Due to uncertainties in relation to life expectancy data, labour markets and the public finances, the Government committed to undertake a further State Pension age review within two years of the next Parliament to consider the appropriateness of the rules on the State Pension age rise to 68 in 2044-46.

Full details of the Governments conclusions were published in the State Pension age Review 2023 (Section 1.4) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-pension-age-review-2023-government-report/state-pension-age-review-2023.