Question follow-through · 17830
Administration of Estates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans does she have to decrease the time taken to return savings to estates of the deceased.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 17 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans does she have to decrease the time taken to return savings to estates of the deceased.
14 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jul 2026
Answer published
On 19 May, I updated Parliament that from the week commencing 25 May, NS&I would start to contact affected estates, with holdings of £10 or more, to reunite them with the holdings owed to them. Remediation will be delivered in phases. NS&I has sin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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