Question follow-through · 113617
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Overseas
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether there have been any further considerations over the uprating of frozen pensions for UK citizens abroad.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 20 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 25 Feb 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether there have been any further considerations over the uprating of frozen pensions for UK citizens abroad.
24 Feb 2026
Target answer date
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25 Feb 2026
Answer published
UK State Pensions are payable worldwide, without regard to nationality, and are only uprated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example in countries with which we have a reciprocal agreement that provides for uprating. The policy on u...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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