Question follow-through · 22720

Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many members of the Civil Service Pension Scheme are currently waiting for a retirement quotation; and how many of those members have already passed their intended retirement date.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
28 Aug 2026
Target answer date
2 Sept 2026
Answer
8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Aug 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many members of the Civil Service Pension Scheme are currently waiting for a retirement quotation; and how many of those members have already passed their intended retirement date.

  2. 2 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    There are currently 20,897 outstanding retirement quotations, representing 18,615 unique members. Individual members may have multiple records where they have separate periods of pensionable service or duplicate requests under review. Complete and reliabl...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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