Question follow-through · 112097

Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Minister signed off the decision to award the Civil Service Pensions contract to Capita.

answeredCabinet Office

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
10 Feb 2026
Target answer date
23 Feb 2026
Answer
6 Mar 2026 · 24 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Democracy and constitution

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Feb 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Minister signed off the decision to award the Civil Service Pensions contract to Capita.

  2. 23 Feb 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    The Cabinet Office awarded the contract to administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme to Capita in November 2023 under the previous government. The then Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office, Jeremy Quin MP, had overall responsibility for...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions

4 Mar 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether data for Death Benefit nominations was migrated successfully from paper systems to the online Civil Service Pension Scheme system run by Capita.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Lung Cancer: Widnes and Halewood

11 Sept 2026 · To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what data her Department holds on how many people in Widnes and Halewood constituency died from lung cancer each year since 2020.