Question follow-through · 61208
Workplace Pensions: Uprating
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to prevent companies sponsoring pensions from reducing pension indexation rates below promised levels.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 19 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 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
19 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to prevent companies sponsoring pensions from reducing pension indexation rates below promised levels.
23 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2025
Answer published
Defined Benefit schemes are legally required to increase pensions in payment annually (for pension rights earned from April 1997 onwards) to provide pensioners with a measure of protection against the effects of inflation. Before April 1997, there was no ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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