Question follow-through · 71916
Trusts: Inflation
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the need to clarify trustee fiduciary duties regarding inflation protection.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 5 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the need to clarify trustee fiduciary duties regarding inflation protection.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Sept 2025
Answer published
I understand the concerns that have been raised over the issue of inflation protection for defined benefit pensions (indexation). Discretionary indexation is over and above statutory and scheme requirements. Trustees can already award discretionary increa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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