Question follow-through · 119984
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse has been for the recruitment and deployment of reconciliation teams from other Departments to assist Capita in managing the backlog of pension queries; and whether this cost wil
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 25 Mar 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse has been for the recruitment and deployment of reconciliation teams from other Departments to assist Capita in managing the backlog of pension queries; and whether this cost wil
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 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 a number of civil servants and pension scheme members in receiving their p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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