Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Women’s State Pension age: our findings on the Department for Work and Pensions’ communication of changes, published on 19 July; and what compensation they will pay to the women affected by maladministration identified in the report.
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) has not completed his investigation. This a multi staged process and the report published on 20 July 2021 concluded stage-one of the 3- stage investigation.
It would not be appropriate to comment on the PHSO’s report whilst the investigation is ongoing; section 7(2) of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 states that Ombudsman investigations “shall be conducted in private”.