Question follow-through · 103021
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of retired civil servants that have been required to repay overpaid pension benefits due to administrative errors made by civil service pension providers in the last ten y
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 5 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of retired civil servants that have been required to repay overpaid pension benefits due to administrative errors made by civil service pension providers in the last ten y
7 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2026
Answer published
The administration of the Civil Service Pension Scheme is the responsibility of the Cabinet Office. While the scheme does not publicly report overpayments due to administrator errors, in the last ten years overpayments caused solely by ‘administrative err...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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