| Heading: |
Workplace Pensions |
| Question ID: |
1746335 |
| UIN: |
17360 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-12-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5157 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Susan Murray
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Susan Murray
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing measures to support pensioners whose defined benefit schemes are underfunded. |
| Is named day: |
false |
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| Date answered: |
2024-12-10 |
| 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: |
The UK has a robust and flexible regime for protecting defined benefit (DB) pensions. Sponsoring employers are ultimately responsible for meeting the promised pensions and DB pension schemes are subject to the statutory funding objective which requires th... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |