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1351005

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government has plans to form new reciprocal agreements to uprate the state pensions of British pensioners overseas.
tabling member constituency	Halifax
tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
uin	41027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government has no plans for new reciprocal agreements on pensions uprating with countries where pensions are not currently uprated.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 08/09/2021 12:46:47 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

1351006

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions she has had with her counterparts in (a) Canada, (b) Australia and (c) other governments on the uprating of the UK state pension overseas.
tabling member constituency	Halifax
tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
uin	41028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2021 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has had no recent discussions on the up-rating of the UK State Pension overseas with her counterparts in Canada, Australia, and governments of other countries where up-ratings are not paid. Up-ratings are paid where there is a legal requirement to do so. This is a longstanding policy and the Government has no plans to change it.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 08/09/2021 12:51:28 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

1351317

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has taken recent steps to pursue a reciprocal agreement with the Peruvian Government to allow British nationals who are resident in Peru to receive annual increments to their pensions.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mick Whitley
uin	41274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2021 answer text <p>The UK has not had any recent discussions with the Government of Peru on a reciprocal pensions uprating agreement.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 08/09/2021 12:48:19 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4755 label Biography information for Mick Whitley

1351318

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made a recent estimate of the number of British nationals resident in Peru who are (a) in receipt of a UK state pension and (b) not in receipt of any workplace or private pension.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mick Whitley
uin	41275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2021 answer text <p>Information for the number in receipt of a UK state pension currently living in Peru is published and available at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a>. As of November 2020, there are 130 people in receipt of a UK State Pension, this cannot be broken down by nationality.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold information on those that are not in receipt of any workplace or private pension in Peru.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 08/09/2021 12:58:05 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4755 label Biography information for Mick Whitley

1272971

registered interest
date	30/12/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the December 2020 APPG report on Frozen Pensions.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	133278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>The policy on the up-rating of UK State Pensions for recipients overseas is longstanding and has been supported by successive Governments for over 70 years. The Government has no plans to change this policy.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/01/2021 17:05:04 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1272415

registered interest
date	17/12/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Frozen British Pensions 2020 inquiry, published on 16 December, and (2) the finding of the report that the governments of Australia and Canada wnt to cooperate with them to end their policy of freezing state pension payments to British pensioners residing in those countries.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL11592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2021 answer text <p>The Government has not made an assessment of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Frozen British Pensions 2020 inquiry or its findings. The UK State Pension is payable worldwide to those who meet the qualifying conditions. It is up-rated where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example, where recipients are living in countries where there is a reciprocal agreement that provides for up-rating. The Government has no plans to change the policy on up-rating UK State Pensions overseas; the policy is longstanding and has been supported by successive Governments for over 70 years. The Government understands that people move abroad for many reasons and that this can have an impact on their finances. However, the decision to move abroad remains a personal choice. Advice that the UK State Pension is not up-rated overseas except where there is a legal requirement has been provided to the public for many years. Information is provided in leaflets and on gov.uk.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott grouped question UIN HL11593 HL11594 HL11595 question first answered 05/01/2021 11:38:30 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1272416

registered interest
date	17/12/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the finding of the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Frozen British Pensions 2020 inquiry, published on 16 December, that half of pensioners residing abroad whose state pension payments are frozen receive a UK state pension of £65 per week or less.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL11593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2021 answer text <p>The Government has not made an assessment of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Frozen British Pensions 2020 inquiry or its findings. The UK State Pension is payable worldwide to those who meet the qualifying conditions. It is up-rated where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example, where recipients are living in countries where there is a reciprocal agreement that provides for up-rating. The Government has no plans to change the policy on up-rating UK State Pensions overseas; the policy is longstanding and has been supported by successive Governments for over 70 years. The Government understands that people move abroad for many reasons and that this can have an impact on their finances. However, the decision to move abroad remains a personal choice. Advice that the UK State Pension is not up-rated overseas except where there is a legal requirement has been provided to the public for many years. Information is provided in leaflets and on gov.uk.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott grouped question UIN HL11592 HL11594 HL11595 question first answered 05/01/2021 11:38:30 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1272417

registered interest
date	17/12/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the finding of the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Frozen British Pensions 2020 inquiry, published on 16 December, that a majority of pensioners emigrating to countries where a freeze on state pension payments applies were not informed that their pension would be frozen before they left the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL11594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2021 answer text <p>The Government has not made an assessment of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Frozen British Pensions 2020 inquiry or its findings. The UK State Pension is payable worldwide to those who meet the qualifying conditions. It is up-rated where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example, where recipients are living in countries where there is a reciprocal agreement that provides for up-rating. The Government has no plans to change the policy on up-rating UK State Pensions overseas; the policy is longstanding and has been supported by successive Governments for over 70 years. The Government understands that people move abroad for many reasons and that this can have an impact on their finances. However, the decision to move abroad remains a personal choice. Advice that the UK State Pension is not up-rated overseas except where there is a legal requirement has been provided to the public for many years. Information is provided in leaflets and on gov.uk.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott grouped question UIN HL11592 HL11593 HL11595 question first answered 05/01/2021 11:38:30 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1272418

registered interest
date	17/12/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to end the freeze on state pension payments to UK pensioners residing in countries where this policy applies.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL11595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2021 answer text <p>The Government has not made an assessment of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Frozen British Pensions 2020 inquiry or its findings. The UK State Pension is payable worldwide to those who meet the qualifying conditions. It is up-rated where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example, where recipients are living in countries where there is a reciprocal agreement that provides for up-rating. The Government has no plans to change the policy on up-rating UK State Pensions overseas; the policy is longstanding and has been supported by successive Governments for over 70 years. The Government understands that people move abroad for many reasons and that this can have an impact on their finances. However, the decision to move abroad remains a personal choice. Advice that the UK State Pension is not up-rated overseas except where there is a legal requirement has been provided to the public for many years. Information is provided in leaflets and on gov.uk.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott grouped question UIN HL11592 HL11593 HL11594 question first answered 05/01/2021 11:38:30 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1259468

registered interest
date	08/12/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many British citizens in receipt of a UK state pension are overseas resident.
tabling member printed	Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer
uin	HL11236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2020 answer text <p>State Pension is payable worldwide to those who meet the qualifying conditions without regard to nationality. In May 2020, there were 1,157,372 UK State Pension recipients living overseas.</p><p>These figures broken down by nationality are not available.</p><p> </p><p>Source: Stat Xplore May 2020.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 14/12/2020 14:43:49 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	1934 label Biography information for Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer