Question follow-through · 95318
Financial Assistance Scheme and Pension Protection Fund: Index Linking
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government will review the method used to apply CPI-linked increases in the PPF and FAS to pre-1997 accruals to ensure that compensation is proportionate to levels of historical losses.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 27 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government will review the method used to apply CPI-linked increases in the PPF and FAS to pre-1997 accruals to ensure that compensation is proportionate to levels of historical losses.
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Government has tabled an amendment which provides that compensation payments from the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) and Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS) on pensions built up before April 1997 will now be linked to CPI-inflation (capped at 2.5%) and a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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