HC Deb 31 October 1988 vol 139 c490W
Mr. Nicholas Brown

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the estimated cost of extending to all British pensioners living overseas the right to receive(a) United Kingdom pensions and (b) United Kingdom pension increases in full.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

United Kingdom retirement pensions and widows benefits are already payable to British pensioners living overseas. About 40 per cent. of these pensioners have their pensions uprated. The extra cost of fully uprating the pensions of the remaining 60 per cent. would be about £205 million a year at current rates.