Question follow-through · 121946
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has produced (a) written advice and (b) guidance setting out the rationale for laying the provision relating to frozen overseas state pensions under the Negative procedure.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has produced (a) written advice and (b) guidance setting out the rationale for laying the provision relating to frozen overseas state pensions under the Negative procedure.
23 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2026
Answer published
The provisions in the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 2026 cannot be included in the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2026 because the powers on which the Up-rating Order relies are insufficiently wide to include these provisions. T...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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