Question follow-through · 10989
Intelligence Services: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether individuals of pension age receiving a pension from the security and intelligence services are able to accrue a civil service pension if employed by the civil service.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 24 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 1 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
24 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether individuals of pension age receiving a pension from the security and intelligence services are able to accrue a civil service pension if employed by the civil service.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Nov 2024
Answer published
The security and intelligence services' pension scheme is separate from the Civil Service Pension Scheme. It is possible for an individual, in receipt of benefits from the pension scheme for the security and intelligence services, to accrue a Civil Servic...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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