Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 24 May 2024.
Caroline Ansell
Conservative, Eastbourne
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to the State Pension age for women born in the 1950s on those women in Eastbourne Constituency.
Paul Maynard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Yes5 people think so
No7 people think not
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