Question follow-through · 14709
Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much in cash terms was originally forecast to be paid to Equitable Life With-Profits Annuitants up to and including 2050 under the Equitable Life Payments Scheme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 7 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much in cash terms was originally forecast to be paid to Equitable Life With-Profits Annuitants up to and including 2050 under the Equitable Life Payments Scheme.
2 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Liberal Democrat Conservative coalition government chose to allocate £1.5 billion to the Equitable Life Payment Scheme. Before it ceased operations in 2016, the Scheme had issued £1.12 billion in tax-free payments to nearly 933,000 policyholders. The ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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