Question follow-through · 5922

Retirement: Personal Savings

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to encourage greater levels of household savings for retirement.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
4 Jun 2026
Answer
10 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to encourage greater levels of household savings for retirement.

  2. 4 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    The Government wishes to encourage pension saving, to help ensure that people have an incomethroughout retirement. This is why, for the majority of savers, pension contributions are tax-free. This makes pensions tax relief one of the most expensive relief...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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