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

answeredAdam DanceCabinet Office

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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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  1. 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

  2. 7 Jan 2026

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  3. 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...

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