Question follow-through · 109468
State Retirement Pensions: Income Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in receipt of a pre-April 2016 State Pension have become liable for Income Tax since the freeze in the Income Tax personal allowance threshold.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 28 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 3 Feb 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in receipt of a pre-April 2016 State Pension have become liable for Income Tax since the freeze in the Income Tax personal allowance threshold.
2 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Feb 2026
Answer published
Revenue estimates from, and individuals impacted by frozen thresholds are set out by the Office for Budget Responsibility in Table A of their November 2025 Economic and fiscal outlook, and Table 3.19 of the detailed forecast table of receipts: Office for ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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