Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations his Department has received on the effect of state pension age changes on women born in the 1950s; and what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of compensating those women for changes to state pension age legislation.

HMT Ministers receive representations on a wide range of matters, including on State Pension age changes.

The Government decided 25 years ago that it was going to make the State Pension age the same for men and women as a long-overdue move towards gender equality. Raising State Pension age in line with life expectancy changes has been the policy of successive administrations over many years.

State Pension age reform has focused on maintaining the right balance between the sustainability of the State Pension, and fairness between generations in the face of demographic change. Changes to State Pension age were made over a series of Acts by successive governments from 1995 onwards, following public consultations and extensive debates in both Houses of Parliament.