Question follow-through · 50777
Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of providing full compensation to Equitable Life policyholders.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 7 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 13 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of providing full compensation to Equitable Life policyholders.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 May 2025
Answer published
The Equitable Life Payment Scheme has been fully wound down and closed since 2016 and there are no plans to reopen any decisions relating to the Payment Scheme or review the £1.5 billion funding allocation previously made to it. Further guidance on the st...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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