Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the time taken by the Independent Case Examiners Office to (a) allocate a case manager, (b) investigate a case for women affected by changes to the state pension age.

To date it has taken the Independent Case Examiner's Office an average (a) of 39 weeks to allocate complaints concerning changes to State Pension age to an investigation case manager; and (b) 9 weeks to complete investigations in to this group of complaints (against a target of 20 weeks).