Question follow-through · 35898
State Retirement Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the impact of the difference between the rates of the (a) basic state pension and (b) new state pension on pensioners; and whether the Department has considered the potent
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 5 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
5 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the impact of the difference between the rates of the (a) basic state pension and (b) new state pension on pensioners; and whether the Department has considered the potent
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Government has made a commitment to the Triple Lock for the entirety of this Parliament which will mean spending on people’s State Pensions is forecast to rise by over £31 billion. It is not possible to make direct, like for like comparisons between S...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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