Question follow-through · 19601

State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential financial impact of not uprating the State Pension for recipients living in countries without a reciprocal social security agreement on pensioner

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
16 Jul 2026
Target answer date
2 Sept 2026
Answer
2 Sept 2026 · 48 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Jul 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential financial impact of not uprating the State Pension for recipients living in countries without a reciprocal social security agreement on pensioner

  2. 2 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    UK State Pensions are payable worldwide, without regard to nationality, and are only uprated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example in countries with which we have a reciprocal agreement that provides for uprating. There are no pl...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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