Question follow-through · 70270

State Retirement Pensions: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the personal allowance remaining below the value of the new state pension from April 2026 on pensioners.

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
22 Jul 2025
Target answer date
1 Sept 2025
Answer
4 Sept 2025 · 44 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 22 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the personal allowance remaining below the value of the new state pension from April 2026 on pensioners.

  2. 1 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 4 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is committed to making sure older people can live with the dignity and respect they deserve in retirement. The State Pension is the foundation of the support available to them. Over the course of this Parliament, the yearly amount of the fu...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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