PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
State Retirement Pensions: Australia and Canada (26 November 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for International Trade on the policy not to uprate the UK state pensions of UK pensioners living in (a) Canada and (b) Australia; and if she will a statement.

Asked by:
Chris Elmore (Labour)

Answer

The Government has no plans to change its policy on overseas pension uprating. This is a longstanding policy which has been supported by successive Governments for over 70 years.


Answered by:
Guy Opperman (Conservative)
3 December 2020

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