Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women in Airdrie and Shotts constituency will be affected by changes in the State Pension Age introduced under the (a) Pensions Act 1995 and (b) Pensions 2011 Act.

Women born between 6 April 1950 and 5 April 1953 are affected by State Pension age equalisation under the Pensions Act 1995.

The Pensions Act 2011 accelerated the equalisation of State Pension age, affecting women born between 6 April 1953 and 5 December 1953, whilst women born between 6 Dec 1953 and 5 April 1960 are affected by the bringing forward of the increase in State Pension age from 65 to 66 under the Pensions Act 2011.

Estimates of the number of women affected at constituency level can be made from the relevant population estimates.

Parliamentary Constituency (England and Wales) level population estimates, relating to mid-2014 (the latest available) can be found by selecting “SAPE17DT7 - Parliamentary Constituency Mid-Year Population Estimates (experimental), Mid-2014” at:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-395002#tab-2014

For Scotland, mid-2014, at:

http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/population-estimates/special-area-population-estimates/spc-population-estimates