Question follow-through · 16780
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of extending the Hardship Fund to all members eligible to receive civil service pensions.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 17 Jul 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of extending the Hardship Fund to all members eligible to receive civil service pensions.
9 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Cabinet Office awarded the contract to administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme to Capita in November 2023 under the previous government.The issues and delays facing a number of civil servants and pension scheme members in receiving their pension b...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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