HC Deb 23 June 1992 vol 210 cc137-8W
Mr. Donald Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his estimate of the annual cost to the Exchequer of unfreezing the retirement pensions of those now resident overseas but entitled to receive such pensions so that they are eligible for that same sum they would have received had they remained in the United Kingdom.

Miss Widdecombe

The estimated additional cost of paying United Kingdom retirement and widows pensions to beneficiaries living abroad at the same rate of benefit which they would have been paid had they remained in the United Kingdom is £275 million a year at 1992 rates. A separate figure for retirement pensioners only is not readily available.

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