Question follow-through · 12656
State Retirement Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the average increase in the State Pension in each of the next five years.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 4 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 12 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
4 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the average increase in the State Pension in each of the next five years.
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Government has committed to uprating the basic and new State Pensions by the Triple Lock for the length of this parliament. Based on OBR Autumn 2024 forecasts, over the course of this parliament, the full yearly rate of the new State Pension will go u...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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