Question follow-through · 13081
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support British 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
- 6 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 12 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support British 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, based on a person’s National Insurance record and are only uprated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example in countries with which we have a reciprocal agreement that provides for up-rating....
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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