Question follow-through · 21551

State Retirement Pensions: Australia and Canada

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with a frozen overseas state pension live in (a) Canada and (b) Australia.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
7 Jan 2025
Answer
9 Jan 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with a frozen overseas state pension live in (a) Canada and (b) Australia.

  2. 7 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Data on State Pension caseloads that are not uprated overseas are published and this can be found on Stat-Xplore. Users can log in or access Stat-Xplore as a guest user and, if needed, can access guidance on how to extract the information required. As of ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

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