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Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse is of additional staff and other resources deployed to help resolve the administration of the Civil Service Pension Scheme by Capita since December 2025; and how much of that co

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
1 Sept 2026
Target answer date
3 Sept 2026
Answer
7 Sept 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 1 Sept 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse is of additional staff and other resources deployed to help resolve the administration of the Civil Service Pension Scheme by Capita since December 2025; and how much of that co

  2. 3 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 7 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    The Cabinet Office awarded Capita the contract to administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme in November 2023 under the previous government. The current delays facing scheme members are entirely unacceptable, and this Government has taken firm action to ...

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