Question follow-through · 127954
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to review the policy on frozen pensions affecting pensioners from West Dorset living abroad.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 22 Apr 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to review the policy on frozen pensions affecting pensioners from West Dorset living abroad.
20 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Apr 2026
Answer published
UK State Pensions are payable worldwide, without regard to nationality, and are only uprated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example in countries with which we have a reciprocal agreement that provides for uprating. This approach h...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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