Question follow-through · 58449
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many overseas voters from North East Hertfordshire constituency are impacted by frozen British Pensions; and whether she is taking steps to help tackle this.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many overseas voters from North East Hertfordshire constituency are impacted by frozen British Pensions; and whether she is taking steps to help tackle this.
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2025
Answer published
There are no plans to change the policy on frozen State Pension. UK State Pensions are payable worldwide, without regard to nationality, and are only up-rated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example in countries with which we have ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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