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Pensions: Indexation

Volume 456: debated on Wednesday 7 February 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the annual cost of indexing the state pension against inflation to UK pensioners living overseas. (110618)

If the state pension of people living in frozen rate countries was brought up to the current rate they would have received if they had remained in the UK it would cost around £410 million in 2006-07 and would increase year on year. This figure does not include paying any arrears.