WASPI’s next steps

3rd December 2025

Yesterday, thanks to WASPI’s judicial review, the Government agreed to a root and branch reconsideration of its response to the Ombudsman’s report on the maladministration and injustice suffered by WASPI women – and how that injustice should be remedied. It has also committed to the 12-week timetable we insisted on.

None of this would have happened without the solidarity. commitment and support through donations of WASPI women and their allies. Thank you.

In the 12 weeks leading up to the Government’s new decision, we all have a great deal of work to do.

The Ombudsman is the watchdog of Parliament and there to help Parliament hold the Government of the day to account. So we will be encouraging WASPI women to contact their representatives in Parliament and tell them precisely what they now need them to do to ensure that the Government’s new decision recognises the injustice the Ombudsman found and makes proper provision for compensation.  WASPI women have plenty to say about the spurious reasons given by the Government a year ago when it wrongly rejected the Ombudsman’s injustice findings. Now is the time to say it.  You can use the letter writing facility on our website click below to contact your MP.

Our lawyers have work to do too. We have asked them to condense WASPI’s case on how the Government got its response to the Ombudsman so badly wrong into a concise briefing for MPs and peers.

Once fully informed about the expectations WASPI women have of them and with the legal critique of the Government’s defiance of the Ombudsman, our MPs then need to step up and insist that the Government seizes the opportunity WASPI’s judicial review has created. It has not shied away from compensating for the injustices experienced by the victims of the contaminated blood scandal, or by postmasters who suffered losses due to faulty accounting software. It has revised the Windrush compensation scheme. The Government is capable of doing the right thing. Parliament needs to be clear with the Government: it must not leave WASPI women out in the cold any longer.