Question follow-through · 110026
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what criteria his Department uses in uprating retired Civil Servants Contracted Out Deduction with annual pension increases to their pre and post - 88 GMP; and what other methodologies his Departments uses for t
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 2 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2026 · 57 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what criteria his Department uses in uprating retired Civil Servants Contracted Out Deduction with annual pension increases to their pre and post - 88 GMP; and what other methodologies his Departments uses for t
5 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2026
Answer published
Pension increases are provided for under the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971, and annual Orders (SIs) made by H.M. Treasury under that Act. The increase from 7th April 2025 was confirmed as 1.7%, which is the rate of CPI as at September 2024. These pension i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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