Question follow-through · 15278
Public Sector: Pensions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the Government's financial liability for public sector defined benefit pensions in each of the next ten 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
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 25 Nov 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the Government's financial liability for public sector defined benefit pensions in each of the next ten years.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 2024
Answer published
The total liability for public service pensions stands at around £3 trillion, as per HM Treasury’s most recent Whole of Government Accounts report of 2021-22. This includes the unfunded public service pension liabilities of £2.6 trillion and the liabiliti...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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