Question follow-through · 53677
Workplace Pensions: Index Linking
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help support pensioners in North Shropshire constituency whose pre-1997 contributions are not subject to indexation.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 23 May 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help support pensioners in North Shropshire constituency whose pre-1997 contributions are not subject to indexation.
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 May 2025
Answer published
Most schemes do pay some pre-1997 indexation, because of scheme rules or as a discretionary benefit. Analysis published last year by the Pensions Regulator shows that as of March 2023, only 17 per cent of members of private sector defined benefit pension ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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