Question follow-through · 23105
Pensioners: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the tax allowance for pensioners to £15,000.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 9 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the tax allowance for pensioners to £15,000.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to keeping taxes as low as possible for pensioners while ensuring fiscal responsibility, which is why it is not extending the freeze on personal tax thresholds that was implemented by the previous government, and is instead all...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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