Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s provisional views for the second stage of its investigation into changes to women’s State Pension age.

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s (PHSO) investigation into communication of changes to women’s state pensions is ongoing and section 7(2) of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 states that Ombudsman investigations “shall be conducted in private’’. We are cooperating fully with the PHSO in their investigation and will continue to do so.