Home Responsibilities Protection

(asked on 1st September 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of parents entitled to an enhanced State Pension as a result of Home Responsibilities Protection but yet to apply.


Answered by
Torsten Bell Portrait
Torsten Bell
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 8th September 2026

Statistics on HMRC and DWP's Legal Entitlements and Administrative Practice exercise to correct historical errors involving Home Responsibilities Protection can be found here: Home Responsibilities Protection (HRP) State Pension underpayments: LEAP exercise to 31 March 2025.

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