State Retirement Pensions: Scotland

(asked on 8th February 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Ross Thomson Portrait
Ross Thomson
(Conservative - Aberdeen South)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will hold discussions with representatives of the Scottish Government on the effect of her policies on WASPI women in Scotland.

Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 23rd February 2018

I have had regular correspondence with the Scottish Minister for Social Security on 16/07/2017, 25/08/17 and 05/02/18. As I said in my letter of 5th February,

“Should the Scottish Government wish to exercise their considerable powers to provide financial support to those impacted by the changes to the State Pension age they are able to do so. This would be entirely a matter for them and the UK Government would not seek to stop them”.

There are no plans to meet with representatives of the Scottish Government to discuss this issue.

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