§ Laura MoffattTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what plans he has to improve the time it takes to calculate the state retirement pension for those in their final year of work. [116363]
§ Mr. RookerThere are no plans to improve the time it takes to calculate the state retirement pension for those in their final year of work. I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave on 25 January 2000,Official Report, column 168W, relating to the time scales for processing claims to retirement pension.