Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has plans to raise the state pension age.

The Government has already stated that people should expect to spend on average ‘up to one third’ of their adult lives in retirement; and that any changes to State Pension age in the future should be fair to current and future generations of pensioners.

To inform the first review into State Pension age, the Government commissioned two independent reports which were published in March 2017. I welcome both John Cridland’s report and the Government Actuary’s report as significant contributions to the evidence base.

The Secretary of State is giving this issue the full consideration it deserves and will publish his report in due course.