Question follow-through · 120501
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing MPs with formal opportunity to scrutinise the annual changes to pension thresholds for eligible pensions that live overseas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 12 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing MPs with formal opportunity to scrutinise the annual changes to pension thresholds for eligible pensions that live overseas.
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Social Security Benefits up-rating Regulations 2026 are consequential on the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2026. The regulations are subject to the negative procedure. They were laid on 6 March 2026 and will come into force on the same date...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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