Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will hold discussions with (a) the Chancellor of the Exchequer and (b) Women Against State Pension Inequality on transitional state pension arrangements for women born after 1951 in advance of Budget 2018.

The Department for Work and Pensions has regular discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and other Cabinet colleagues on a range of issues.

This issue of transitional state pension arrangements for women born after 1951 has been debated numerous times, during successive governments including the Liberal and Conservative coalition 2010-2015. The Government has no plans to revisit the policy on women’s State Pension age. We do not intend to make further concessions in addition to the transitional arrangements for those adversely affected by the acceleration of increases in State Pension age which have already been made, in 2011 when the Pensions Bill was debated in Parliament.