Question follow-through · 54998
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to negotiate reciprocal social security agreements with countries where UK pensioners do not receive annual state pension uprating.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
30 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to negotiate reciprocal social security agreements with countries where UK pensioners do not receive annual state pension uprating.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Department has no plans to negotiate such reciprocal social security agreements.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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