| Heading: |
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad |
| Question ID: |
1817545 |
| UIN: |
63577 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4803 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Paul Holmes
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| Asking Member handle: |
pauljholmes
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@pauljholmes
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with her Australian counterpart on negotiating a new reciprocal social security agreement for the uprating of UK State Pensions for UK pensioners residing in Australia. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-08 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
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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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
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| Answer text: |
The Department has not engaged with their Australian counterparts on negotiating a new reciprocal social security agreement. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |