State Retirement Pensions: Women
(asked on 29th August 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department last estimated the number of women born in the 1950s affected by State Pension age changes in West Dorset constituency.
This question was answered on 8th September 2025
All women born since 6 April 1950 have been affected by changes to State Pension age. No specific estimate has been made for the number of women born in the 1950s in West Dorset constituency. However, estimates can be made with 2021 census data.
ONS population estimates indicate that in 2021 there were approximately 8,500 females born in the 1950s resident in the West Dorset constituency in that year.