Question follow-through · 27077
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of civil service pensions for the next 50 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
- 28 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 5 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of civil service pensions for the next 50 years.
30 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Treasury’s central affordability measure for public service pensions is the projected pension benefit payments as a percentage of estimated GDP. This reflects the fact that most public service pension schemes are unfunded and financed through taxation...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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