Question follow-through · 40818
Income Tax: Pensioners
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of pensioners will pay income tax in each of the next five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 1 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of pensioners will pay income tax in each of the next five years.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to ensuring that older people are able to live with the dignity and respect they deserve, and the State Pension is the foundation of state support for older people. The Government is committed to the Triple Lock for the duratio...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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