| Heading: |
State Retirement Pensions: Uprating |
| Question ID: |
1727066 |
| UIN: |
4050 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-09-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4873 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Rachel Hopkins
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| Asking Member handle: |
rach_hopkins
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@rach_hopkins
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to negotiate a reciprocal agreement with the Australian government on uprating state pensions. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
2024-09-09 |
| Date answered: |
2024-09-18 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4077 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Emma Reynolds
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| Answering Member handle: |
emmaforwycombe
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@emmaforwycombe
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| Answer text: |
There are no plans to negotiate a new reciprocal social security agreement with Australia. UK State Pensions are payable worldwide, without regard to nationality, and are only uprated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so - for example in cou... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |