Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he will formally respond to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s 2021 report into the impact of State Pension Age equalisation on women.

It would not be appropriate to comment on the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's Stage one report published on 20 July 2021. The Ombudsman’s investigation is ongoing and section 7(2) of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 states that Ombudsman investigations “shall be conducted in private”.

This is a multi-staged process, and the Ombudsman has not given his final findings on the investigation. We are cooperating with the Ombudsman’s investigation.