Question follow-through · 12874
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support British state pensioners residing overseas.
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
- 5 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 12 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support British state pensioners residing overseas.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2024
Answer published
UK State Pensions are payable worldwide, without regard to nationality, based on a person’s National Insurance record. People move abroad for many reasons and may have access to their host country’s benefit system or other sources of income such as an occ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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