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1544881

registered interest
date	23/11/2022
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, if he will make an assessment the potential financial impact of the freeze on the state pensions for British people living abroad on people receiving a UK pension in (a) Canada, (b) Australia and (c) India.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	94845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2022 answer text <p>DWP does not make such an assessment. The UK State Pension is payable worldwide to those who meet the qualifying conditions. Entitlement is based on an individual’s national insurance record. The policy on up-rating UK State Pensions overseas is long-standing and has been supported by successive post-war Governments for over 70 years. We continue to up-rate UK State Pensions abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so – for example where there is a reciprocal agreement that provides for up-rating. There are no plans to change this policy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 30/11/2022 13:41:50 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1545087

registered interest
date	23/11/2022
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 His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made, if any, of the number of UK citizens living abroad whose pensions are frozen at a level of £100 per week or below.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL3688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>As of February 2019, the estimated cost of uprating State Pension in frozen rate countries was around £0.6 billion for 2022 to 2023. This information is published at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/estimated-costs-of-uprating-state-pension-in-frozen-rate-countries/estimated-costs-of-uprating-state-pension-in-frozen-rate-countries" target="_blank">Estimated costs of uprating State Pension in frozen rate countries - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of people in receipt of a frozen State Pension abroad at a level under £100 per week was 428,830 as of November 2020. ‘UK citizenship’ is not defined/identifiable in this data. This information is published on Stat-Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/dataCatalogueExplorer.xhtml" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore - Home (dwp.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Figure rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p> </p><p>The policy on uprating UK State Pensions overseas is long-standing and has been supported by successive post-war Government for over 70 years. We continue to uprate UK State Pensions abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so – for example where there is a reciprocal agreement that provides for uprating. There are no plans to change this policy.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott grouped question UIN HL3689 HL3690 question first answered 07/12/2022 13:40:42 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1545088

registered interest
date	23/11/2022
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 His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the cost of uprating the pensions of UK citizens living abroad to £100 per week.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL3689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>As of February 2019, the estimated cost of uprating State Pension in frozen rate countries was around £0.6 billion for 2022 to 2023. This information is published at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/estimated-costs-of-uprating-state-pension-in-frozen-rate-countries/estimated-costs-of-uprating-state-pension-in-frozen-rate-countries" target="_blank">Estimated costs of uprating State Pension in frozen rate countries - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of people in receipt of a frozen State Pension abroad at a level under £100 per week was 428,830 as of November 2020. ‘UK citizenship’ is not defined/identifiable in this data. This information is published on Stat-Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/dataCatalogueExplorer.xhtml" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore - Home (dwp.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Figure rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p> </p><p>The policy on uprating UK State Pensions overseas is long-standing and has been supported by successive post-war Government for over 70 years. We continue to uprate UK State Pensions abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so – for example where there is a reciprocal agreement that provides for uprating. There are no plans to change this policy.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott grouped question UIN HL3688 HL3690 question first answered 07/12/2022 13:40:42 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1507231

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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, if she will make an assessment of the impact of the freeze on the state pensions of people living abroad on levels of poverty amongst those people.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	53522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>DWP does not make such an assessment. The UK State Pension is payable worldwide to those who meet the qualifying conditions. Entitlement is based on an individual’s National Insurance record. The policy on up-rating UK State Pensions overseas is long-standing and has been supported by successive post-war Governments for over 70 years. We continue to up-rate UK State Pensions abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so – for example where there is a reciprocal agreement that provides for up-rating. There are no plans to change this policy.</p><p> </p><p>This Government continues to take the view that priority should be given to those living in the UK when drawing up expenditure plans for pensioner benefits.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 27/09/2022 13:13:24 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1504156

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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 steps her Department is taking to support UK pensioners living overseas in countries without a reciprocal uprating agreement with the UK.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	45949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2022 answer text <p>The UK State Pension is payable worldwide to those who meet the qualifying conditions. Entitlement is based on an individual’s national insurance record. State Pensions are up-rated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so – for example where there is a reciprocal agreement that provides for up-rating.</p><p> </p><p>There is information available in leaflets and on GOV.UK on how to claim State Pension from overseas and on what the effect of going abroad will be on a person’s UK State Pension.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 17/09/2022 15:14:31 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1469150

registered interest
date	09/06/2022
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, which department authorised the four most recent agreements for overseas British pensioners to receive state pension increases; and what dates those agreements were made.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
uin	15165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>Disregarding any agreements which continued the existing arrangements for State Pension uprating, such as those with Ireland, the EU and Switzerland, the table below lists the four most recent social security agreements that provide for State Pension uprating with countries where the pension was not previously uprated. These agreements were approved by Ministers in the Department for Work and Pensions or its predecessor Department.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Country</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Agreement entered into force</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barbados</p></td><td><p>1 April 1992</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Philippines</p></td><td><p>1 December 1989</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Iceland</p></td><td><p>1 August 1985</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mauritius</p></td><td><p>1 November 1981</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 13/06/2022 12:16:19 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1469154

registered interest
date	09/06/2022
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, to list for each overseas country when resident UK pensioners do not receive yearly increases what the lowest current payment to a pensioner is who was entitled at retirement to a full basic UK state pension, stating the year the pension was frozen.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
uin	15167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2022 answer text <p>The UK State Pension is payable worldwide and is up-rated in countries where there is a legal requirement to do so. This is a longstanding policy which has been supported by successive post-war governments for over 70 years.</p><p> </p><p>Up-rating is paid to State Pension recipients in the UK, European Union, European Economic Area, Barbados, Bermuda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Israel, Jamaica, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Mauritius, Montenegro, Serbia, Switzerland, The Philippines, Turkey, and the United States.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Information on the lowest full basic State Pension in payment, in each country where up-rating is not paid, is not readily available and to provide it would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/06/2022 10:02:49 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1422753

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
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, for what reason UK pensioners who have (a) fully contributed throughout their working lives and (b) moved abroad after retirement have their state pension frozen at the rate which applied when they emigrated; and if she will (i) review the ethical basis of and (ii) take steps to bring an end to that practice.
tabling member constituency	New Forest East
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Lewis
uin	124935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>The policy on the up-rating of UK State Pensions overseas is longstanding and has been supported by successive Governments for over 70 years. There are no plans to change this policy.</p><p> </p><p>This Government continues to take the view that priority should be given to those living in Great Britain when drawing up expenditure plans for pensioner benefits.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 23/02/2022 15:48:07 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	54 label Biography information for Sir Julian Lewis

1420567

registered interest
date	07/02/2022
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 progress has been made on securing reciprocal agreements with countries outside of the EU to facilitate the uprating of state pension to UK citizens living abroad.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	119832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2022 answer text <p>The UK State Pension is payable worldwide to all who satisfy the qualifying conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The policy on the up-rating of UK State Pensions paid overseas is longstanding and has been supported by successive post-war governments for over 70 years.</p><p>The Government has no plans to change this policy.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 10/02/2022 16:36:39 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1401281

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
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 steps her Department is taking to introduce a secure electronic system that will enable British citizens living overseas to submit documentary evidence as proof of entitlement particularly in relation to pensions.
tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
tabling member printed	Allan Dorans
uin	100692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>DWP already uses a secure electronic system to allow customers to upload certain categories of evidence to the department.</p><p> </p><p>We have been carrying out extensive research to expand this capability to cover other services such as pensions. Our expectation is that this capability will possibly be available towards the end of the next financial year 2022/3.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 17/01/2022 14:08:11 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4740 label Biography information for Allan Dorans