Question follow-through · 121862
Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to ensure that contingency funding linked to the Equitable Life Payment Scheme will be used to compensate Equitable Life policyholders.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to ensure that contingency funding linked to the Equitable Life Payment Scheme will be used to compensate Equitable Life policyholders.
23 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Equitable Life Payment Scheme has been fully wound down and closed since 2016. The only remaining part of the Payment Scheme in operation is the annual payments made to eligible With-Profit-Annuitants and the Scheme is on track to distribute the remai...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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