Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of women affected by the changes to the State Pension age in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.

All women born since 6 Apr 1950 have been affected by changes to State Pension age, through changes brought in by the Pensions Acts 1995, 2007, 2011 and 2014. As State Pension age is now the same for men and women, following equalisation, all men born since the 6 Dec 1953 have also been affected by changes to State Pension age, through the 2007, 2011 and 2014 Pensions Acts. The oldest of the women affected by changes to State Pension age would now be 74 years old, the oldest of the men affected by changes to State Pension age would now be 70 years old.

ONS population estimates suggest that in mid 2023 there were 43,216 females aged 74 or below currently resident in the South Hollands and the Deepings constituency, and 345,713 females resident in Lincolnshire aged 74 or below, who have been impacted by State Pension age increases to 65 and 66.

Future State Pension age changes are set out on gov.uk, but are subject to confirmation as part of periodic reviews of State Pension age.