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date	16/03/2023
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, how many people in receipt of a UK pension live in countries without a reciprocal social security agreement with the UK by (a) the country they live in and (b) their gender.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	167143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>This information is published on Stat-Xplore <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a> and currently extends to November 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The number of people in receipt of a UK State Pension living in countries without a reciprocal social security agreement with the UK is 298,294.</p><p> </p><p>The breakdown by country and gender are shown in the tables below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Country of State Pension receipt</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Male</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Antigua</p></td><td><p>141</p></td><td><p>166</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Albania</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Algeria</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Andorra</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Anguilla</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Antilles (Netherlands)</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Argentina</p></td><td><p>128</p></td><td><p>132</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aruba</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ascension Island</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Australia</p></td><td><p>100,047</p></td><td><p>122,289</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bahamas</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>139</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bahrain</p></td><td><p>79</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bangladesh</p></td><td><p>175</p></td><td><p>795</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belize</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolivia</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Botswana</p></td><td><p>89</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brazil</p></td><td><p>485</p></td><td><p>284</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brunei</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Burkina Faso</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Burma (Myanmar)</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cameroon</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cape Verde Islands</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cayman Islands</p></td><td><p>111</p></td><td><p>78</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chile</p></td><td><p>168</p></td><td><p>141</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>China People's Republic</p></td><td><p>249</p></td><td><p>74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Colombia</p></td><td><p>128</p></td><td><p>127</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cook Islands</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Costa Rica</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dom Commonwealth (Dominica)</p></td><td><p>217</p></td><td><p>244</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dominican Republic</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Country of State Pension receipt</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Male</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ecuador</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Egypt</p></td><td><p>189</p></td><td><p>116</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>El Salvador</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Equatorial Guinea</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ethiopia</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Falkland Islands &amp; Dep</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Faroe Islands</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fiji</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>French Polynesia</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gambia</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ghana</p></td><td><p>451</p></td><td><p>388</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greenland</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grenada</p></td><td><p>402</p></td><td><p>500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Guatemala</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Guyana</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>101</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Honduras</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hong Kong</p></td><td><p>1,510</p></td><td><p>904</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>India</p></td><td><p>2,145</p></td><td><p>2,113</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Indonesia</p></td><td><p>314</p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Iran</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Iraq</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Japan</p></td><td><p>4,644</p></td><td><p>2,158</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jordan</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kampuchea</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kenya</p></td><td><p>345</p></td><td><p>305</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kuwait</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Laos</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lebanon</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lesotho</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Macau</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Country of State Pension receipt</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Male</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Malagasy Republic</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Malawi</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Malaysia</p></td><td><p>1,072</p></td><td><p>1,159</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mexico</p></td><td><p>241</p></td><td><p>228</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Monaco</p></td><td><p>246</p></td><td><p>143</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Montserrat</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Morocco</p></td><td><p>112</p></td><td><p>70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mozambique</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Namibia</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nepal</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nevis, St Kitts-Nevis</p></td><td><p>131</p></td><td><p>148</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Caledonia</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nicaragua</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nigeria</p></td><td><p>1,090</p></td><td><p>804</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk Island</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oman</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pakistan</p></td><td><p>1,103</p></td><td><p>1,579</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Panama</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Papua New Guinea</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Paraguay</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Peru</p></td><td><p>66</p></td><td><p>64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Qatar</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Republic of Azerbaijan</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Republic of Belarus</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Republic of Georgia</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Republic of Kazakhstan</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Republic of Kyrgyzstan</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Republic of Moldova</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Republic of Yemen</p></td><td><p>172</p></td><td><p>501</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Russian Federation</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>San Marino</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Saudi Arabia</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Senegal</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Seychelles</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>78</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sierra Leone</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Singapore</p></td><td><p>514</p></td><td><p>359</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Country of State Pension receipt</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Male</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Solomon Islands</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Somalia</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Africa</p></td><td><p>12,932</p></td><td><p>17,411</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Korea</p></td><td><p>288</p></td><td><p>91</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sri Lanka</p></td><td><p>557</p></td><td><p>572</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Helena &amp; Deps</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Lucia</p></td><td><p>376</p></td><td><p>454</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Vincents &amp; Grenadines</p></td><td><p>221</p></td><td><p>229</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sudan</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surinam</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swaziland</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Syria</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tahiti</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Taiwan</p></td><td><p>88</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tanzania</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thailand</p></td><td><p>4,777</p></td><td><p>586</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Togo</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tonga</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trinidad &amp; Tobago</p></td><td><p>456</p></td><td><p>843</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tunisia</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>53</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Turks &amp; Caicos Islands</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Uganda</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ukraine</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Arab Emirates</p></td><td><p>431</p></td><td><p>180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United States Minor Outlying Islands</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Uruguay</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vanuatu</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Venezuela</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vietnam</p></td><td><p>105</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Virgin Islands (British)</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Western Samoa</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Zambia</p></td><td><p>79</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Zimbabwe</p></td><td><p>311</p></td><td><p>546</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Please note:</p><p>1. The &quot;..&quot; denotes a nil or negligible number of claimants or award amount based on a nil or negligible number of claimants.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 23/03/2023 12:46:37 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

1548933

registered interest
date	06/12/2022
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, whether his Department is taking steps to help support UK pensioners living in countries without a reciprocal pension uprating agreement with the UK.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	104250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2022 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>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. 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><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott grouped question UIN 104258 question first answered 14/12/2022 12:09:59 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

1548935

registered interest
date	06/12/2022
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, how many pensioners living outside of the UK had their pensions stopped in the last six months owing to postal issues and life certificate forms broken down by current country of residence.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	104251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2022 answer text <p>DWP does not maintain data regarding the temporary suspension of International State Pensions owing to postal issues, as this is not something the Department is able to determine.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott grouped question UIN 104260 question first answered 14/12/2022 12:18:27 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

1548936

registered interest
date	06/12/2022
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, whether he has made a recent assessment of the impact of the cost of living and inflation on British pensioners living overseas in countries without a reciprocal uprating agreement with the UK.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	104252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2022 answer text <p>DWP does not make such assessments. 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> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott grouped question UIN 104261 104272 question first answered 14/12/2022 12:14:39 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

1378070

registered interest
date	12/11/2021
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 assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the findings of the survey published by the End Frozen Pensions campaign on 2 November 2021 that 28 per cent of British pensioners with frozen overseas pensions are unable to access medication as a result of financial hardship.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	73875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2021 answer text <p>No assessment has been made. The decision to move abroad is voluntary and remains a personal choice dependent on the circumstances of the individual. This longstanding policy has been in place under successive governments for over 70 years.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 73876 question first answered 22/11/2021 16:09:55 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

1378071

registered interest
date	12/11/2021
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 steps her Department is taking to monitor the impact of its policy on indexing state pensions overseas only for British pensioners in countries with reciprocal uprating agreements.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	73876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2021 answer text <p>No assessment has been made. The decision to move abroad is voluntary and remains a personal choice dependent on the circumstances of the individual. This longstanding policy has been in place under successive governments for over 70 years.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 73875 question first answered 22/11/2021 16:09:55 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier