Question follow-through · 41047
Teachers: Retirement
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) financial and (b) other support her Department provides to teachers who retire unexpectedly due to ill health.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 1 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Education and skills
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- Further Education: Student Wastage · 20 Oct 2025
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) financial and (b) other support her Department provides to teachers who retire unexpectedly due to ill health.
1 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Apr 2025
Answer published
Teachers who are members of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme who suffer ill-health such that they are assessed as being unable to continue working up until their Normal Pension Age, equal to State Pension Age, can access their accrued pension benefits without...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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20 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to help support students who are retaking (a) maths and (b) English GCSE whilst in further education.
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20 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to provide pathways for students who have been withdrawn from further educations due to their absence from Maths and English GCSE lessons.
Young People: Unemployment
20 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what timeframe her Department uses to determine how long young people are out of education, employment or training before they are categorised as NEET.
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20 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department applies the same methodology for the number of people not in employment, education or training who are (a) 16 to 18 and (b) 18 to 24 years of age.