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Workplace Pensions: Uprating |
| Question ID: |
1814454 |
| UIN: |
61208 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4764 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to prevent companies sponsoring pensions from reducing pension indexation rates below promised levels. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-25 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5069 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Torsten Bell
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| Answering Member handle: |
TorstenBell
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@TorstenBell
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| Answer text: |
Defined Benefit schemes are legally required to increase pensions in payment annually (for pension rights earned from April 1997 onwards) to provide pensioners with a measure of protection against the effects of inflation. Before April 1997, there was no ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |