Question follow-through · 13082
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to uprate the state pension for British pensioners residing overseas.
About this written question
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- 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
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
6 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to uprate the state pension for British pensioners residing overseas.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2024
Answer published
The UK's policy on the up-rating of the UK State Pension for recipients living overseas is a longstanding one. The UK State Pension is payable worldwide and is only uprated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example in countries with ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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