Question follow-through · 10243
Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether prisoners who are engaged in work make contributions to their pension funds.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 24 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether prisoners who are engaged in work make contributions to their pension funds.
22 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jun 2026
Answer published
Prisoners can normally make voluntary contributions to their own existing private pension, in line with the rules of their scheme or terms of contract, and subject to proceeds of crime rules. However, prisoners engaged in paid work while serving a sentenc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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