| Heading: |
State Retirement Pensions |
| Question ID: |
1751340 |
| UIN: |
21245 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-12-18 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5202 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Jessica Toale
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| Asking Member handle: |
JessicaToale
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@JessicaToale
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of equalising the (a) basic and (b) new State Pension. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-08 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4077 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Emma Reynolds
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| Answering Member handle: |
emmaforwycombe
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@emmaforwycombe
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| Answer text: |
We are absolutely committed to supporting pensioners and giving them the dignity and security they deserve in retirement.We have made no such assessment. It is not possible to make direct, like for like comparisons between State Pension amounts received u... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |