Question follow-through · 27909
Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to distribute the remainder of the funding allocation to those affected by the Equitable Life scandal.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 8 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to distribute the remainder of the funding allocation to those affected by the Equitable Life scandal.
10 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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17 Sept 2026
Answer published
In 2010 the coalition government chose to allocate up to £1.5 billion to the Equitable Life Payment Scheme. Before it ceased operations in 2016, the Scheme had issued £1.12 billion in tax-free payments to nearly 933,000 policyholders.As the Scheme has bee...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
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