Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) staff are deployed to respond to complaints received from women born in the 1950s affected by the change to the state pension age and (b) additional staff have been employed to respond to those complaints in each of the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

The responses to complaints received are being handled within normal business activities.

No additional staff have been employed to respond to these complaints.