Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women born in the 1950s and affected by the changes in state pension age (a) are entitled to the full state pension, (b) do not have the required number of qualifying years for a full state pension and (c) were contracted out.

The State Pension age changes in the 1995 Pensions Act affect all women born on or after 6th April 1950. The 2011 Pensions Act affects women born between 6^th April 1953 and 5^th April 1960. The figures in the tables below refer to those women born between 6^th April 1950 and 5^th April 1960 inclusive who have claimed their State Pension.

Table 1: Numbers of women receiving the full-rate, or less than the full-rate, of basic or new State Pension

Note 1: The new State Pension came in for people reaching State Pension age on or after 6^th April 2016.

Note 2: The figures above refer to those people receiving the relevant full-rates without considering entitlements to any additional payments e.g. for Additional Pension or Protected Payments.

Those women who are in receipt of the full-rate of State Pension will have at least the number of qualifying years necessary for a full basic or new State Pension. Those receiving less than the full-rate of basic State Pension will not have the required number of qualifying years. Data is not available on the number of qualifying years for those reaching State Pension age on or after 6^th April 2016, when the new State Pension system began.

Table 2: Numbers of women with and without contracted-out status

Source: DWP Quarterly Statistical Enquiry, September 2016

Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100.

Note 3: Data is not available for contracted-out status for those reaching State Pension age on or after 6^th April 2016, when the new State Pension system began.