Question follow-through · 17873
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of an annual state pension increase for British pensioners living outside the UK.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 10 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of an annual state pension increase for British pensioners living outside the UK.
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Dec 2024
Answer published
No assessment is planned. 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 without regard to nationality and is uprated abroad where we have a legal re...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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