Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps her Department has taken to mitigate the effect of state pension age changes on women born in the 1950s.

Raising State Pension age in line with life expectancy changes has been the policy of successive administrations over many years, dating back to 1993.

Parliament set out in successive Pensions Acts fair transitional arrangements when it introduced the changes to State Pension age. There are no plans for further transitional provisions.

Scotland has the powers under the Scotland Act 2016 to make additional discretionary payments should it wish to do so.