Question follow-through · 116915
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the size of the backlog of civil service pension cases on (a) 1 December 2025 and (b) 1 March 2026.
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
- 2 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the size of the backlog of civil service pension cases on (a) 1 December 2025 and (b) 1 March 2026.
4 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Cabinet Office awarded the contract to administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) to Capita in November 2023 under the previous government. The issues and delays facing civil servants and pension scheme members in accessing their pensions is u...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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