Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken has been for the office of the Independent Case Examiner to respond to a complaint relating to the equalisation of the state pension age in the last 12 months.
In the period March 2017 to February 2018 it took an average of 45 weeks for the Independent Case Examiner’s Office to conclude investigations into complaints about the equalisation of state pension age, from the point at which the complaint was accepted for examination.