Work and Pensions Committee
18 March 2026
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Work and Pensions Committee House of Commons
00:06 - 00:41
Speaker 1
Order. Order. And a very warm welcome to this oral evidence session of the Work and Pension Select Committee, our final session of the transition to state pension age inquiry. And it's a pleasure to wealth welcome the minister for pensions, Thorsten Bell, and he's accompanied by Kathy Payne, who's in charge of the state pensions policy, and Nick Warrington, who's on the Keep Britain working team. So welcome to both of you as as well.
I don't think either of you have been to the committee before, so a special warm
00:41 - 00:42
Speaker 2
welcome to
00:42 - 01:26
Speaker 1
to you both. I'm going to kick off with with some questions, if that's okay. So, minister, we we know that from the first independent review of the state pension age, it was recommended that bringing forward the increase the state pension age to 68 to between 2,000 37 and 2039. But the second independent review pushed it back to 2041 and 2043 in light of the decline in projections around life expectancy. So to to what extent do you see the state pension age as a means of controlling spending?
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