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Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 May to Question 46599 on Civil Servants: Workplace Pension, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of changing the civil service pension scheme to a defined contribut

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
30 May 2025
Target answer date
9 Jun 2025
Answer
9 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 May to Question 46599 on Civil Servants: Workplace Pension, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of changing the civil service pension scheme to a defined contribut

  2. 9 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The Civil Service Pension Scheme in Great Britain is an unfunded defined benefit pension scheme. The Public Service Pensions Act 2013 (the Act) provided for the introduction of new pension schemes for staff in public services, including the civil service....

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