State Retirement Pensions: Women
(asked on 25th November 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of women born in the 1950s affected by State Pension age changes in each constituency in (a) Scotland and (b) Northern Ireland.
In Scotland, as of the 2022 census there were the following numbers of 1950s-born women in each Scottish constituency:
Constituency | Females aged 63 to 72 in 2022 |
East Renfrewshire | 6,086 |
Na h-Eileanan an Iar | 1,914 |
Midlothian | 5,569 |
North Ayrshire and Arran | 6,866 |
Orkney and Shetland | 2,901 |
Aberdeen North | 6,079 |
Aberdeen South | 5,144 |
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East | 6,279 |
Airdrie and Shotts | 5,342 |
Alloa and Grangemouth | 5,716 |
Angus and Perthshire Glens | 7,146 |
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry | 6,507 |
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber | 7,029 |
Bathgate and Linlithgow | 5,286 |
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | 6,977 |
Coatbridge and Bellshill | 5,540 |
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy | 5,976 |
Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch | 5,585 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 7,212 |
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | 6,432 |
Dundee Central | 5,094 |
Dunfermline and Dollar | 5,543 |
East Kilbride and Strathaven | 5,921 |
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh | 4,895 |
Edinburgh North and Leith | 4,363 |
Edinburgh South | 5,203 |
Edinburgh South West | 4,699 |
Edinburgh West | 5,847 |
Falkirk | 5,732 |
Glasgow East | 4,516 |
Glasgow North | 3,995 |
Glasgow North East | 4,823 |
Glasgow South | 4,754 |
Glasgow South West | 4,648 |
Glasgow West | 4,880 |
Glenrothes and Mid Fife | 5,958 |
Gordon and Buchan | 5,696 |
Hamilton and Clyde Valley | 5,982 |
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West | 6,209 |
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire | 6,686 |
Livingston | 5,600 |
Lothian East | 6,023 |
Mid Dunbartonshire | 6,639 |
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey | 6,736 |
Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke | 5,589 |
North East Fife | 6,248 |
Paisley and Renfrewshire North | 5,749 |
Paisley and Renfrewshire South | 5,439 |
Perth and Kinross-shire | 6,664 |
Rutherglen | 6,004 |
Stirling and Strathallan | 5,965 |
West Dunbartonshire | 5,905 |
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | 6,619 |
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | 7,240 |
Central Ayrshire | 6,245 |
Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 6,100 |
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | 6,004 |
The relevant Scottish census data is available here in table UV102a, broken down by United Kingdom Parliamentary Constituency 2024: SuperWEB2(tm) - Table View.
In Northern Ireland, as of the 2021 census there were the following numbers of 1950s-born women in each Northern Irish constituency:
Constituency | Females aged 62 to 71 in 2021 |
Belfast East | 4,825 |
Belfast North | 5,116 |
Belfast South and Mid Down | 5,343 |
Belfast West | 5,081 |
East Antrim | 5,633 |
East Londonderry | 5,771 |
Fermanagh and South Tyrone | 5,701 |
Foyle | 5,087 |
Lagan Valley | 5,528 |
Mid Ulster | 4,845 |
Newry and Armagh | 5,439 |
North Antrim | 5,656 |
North Down | 6,181 |
South Antrim | 5,286 |
South Down | 5,441 |
Strangford | 5,917 |
Upper Bann | 5,796 |
West Tyrone | 5,234 |
The relevant Northern Irish census data is available in this table: Get data for Single year of age and sex (MS-A09) | NISRA Flexible Table Builder