Question follow-through · 41309
Workplace Pensions: Inflation
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to require profitable companies to increase pre-1997 occupational pensions in line with inflation.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 2 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to require profitable companies to increase pre-1997 occupational pensions in line with inflation.
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Apr 2025
Answer published
Members of defined benefit pension schemes with non-indexed pre-1997 pension accrued, are now understandably concerned at seeing inflation erode the value of their retirement income. The Government’s recently announced reforms on the use of surpluses in d...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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