Written Question·Treasury·UIN 17830

Administration of Estates

Tabled: 10 July 2026
Answered: 17 July 2026

Question

Steve Darling

Liberal DemocratTorbay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans does she have to decrease the time taken to return savings to estates of the deceased.

Answer

Torsten Bell
On 19 May, I updated Parliament that from the week commencing 25 May, NS&I would start to contact affected estates, with holdings of £10 or more, to reunite them with the holdings owed to them. Remediation will be delivered in phases. NS&I has sin...

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