Question follow-through · 43380
State Retirement Pensions: Tax Allowances
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on raising the level of the personal tax-free allowance in line with the basic state pension.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on raising the level of the personal tax-free allowance in line with the basic state pension.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
The DWP Secretary of State engages regularly with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. As the Minister for Pensions, I also serve as a Parliamentary Secretary at HM Treasury. Currently the Personal Allowance, which is the amount an individual can earn before ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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