Question follow-through · 106672
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the level of the gender pension gap within the civil service pension scheme.
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
- 19 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2026 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the level of the gender pension gap within the civil service pension scheme.
21 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2026
Answer published
The gender pension gap can be measured in different ways. In order to answer this question, we have used the difference in average pension in payment for men and women, expressed as a percentage of the average pension for men. Based on the latest data ava...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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