Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 16 March 2023.
Amy Callaghan
Scottish National Party, East Dunbartonshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the socioeconomic impact of changes to the state pension for 1950s-born women in each Constituency in Scotland.
Laura Trott
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Successive governments have given due consideration to the impact of the proposals made in the Pensions Acts of 1995, 2007, 2011 and 2014, that introduced changes to the State Pension age. These assessments have been published.
No assessments have been made specifically on individual constituencies in Scotland.
Yes2 people think so
No30 people think not
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