Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will set out a timeline for repaying the remaining 200,000 pensioners identified in 2020 as having been underpaid their State Pension.

As stated in DWP’s Annual Report and Accounts 2022, the Department expects to complete the exercise for CAT BL and CAT D by the end of 2023. For missed conversion cases, we aim to complete these as soon as we can but for this group the exercise could run through to late 2024.

The Government is fully committed to ensuring that any historical errors, unaddressed by previous Governments, are put right as quickly as possible. We have increased the number of people working on the exercise and at its peak, we plan to have around 1500 staff dedicated to the exercise. Our delivery is backloaded, with case reviews expected to significantly increase this year and going forward.