Question follow-through · 106360
Manufacturing Industries: Yemen
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people she estimates have been impacted by the cessation of pension payments to Yemeni steelworkers who worked in Britani.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people she estimates have been impacted by the cessation of pension payments to Yemeni steelworkers who worked in Britani.
21 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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21 Jan 2026
Answer published
We are unable to identify which State Pension claimants are ex-steelworkers and therefore unable to provide any estimate of the number of people whose payment has stopped. As of May 2025, there are 832 State Pension recipients in the Yemen.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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