Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women in St Helens North constituency born on or after 6 April 1951 will be affected by equalisation of the state pension age.

Women born between 6 April 1950 and 5 December 1953 are affected by the equalisation of State Pension age.

Women born from 6 December 1953 onwards are affected by the increases in State Pension age from 65 for both men and women.

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