Question follow-through · 77227
State Retirement Pensions: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the cost of state pensions on other public spending priorities.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2025 · 29 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
15 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the cost of state pensions on other public spending priorities.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government has published Spending Review 2025, which set departmental spending allocations consistent with the fiscal strategy set out at Autumn Budget 2024 and Spring Statement 2025. This will be updated at Autumn Budget 2025.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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