Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 41309

Workplace Pensions: Inflation

Tabled: 25 March 2025
Answered: 2 April 2025

Question

Zöe Franklin

Liberal DemocratGuildford

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to require profitable companies to increase pre-1997 occupational pensions in line with inflation.

Answer

Torsten Bell
Members of defined benefit pension schemes with non-indexed pre-1997 pension accrued, are now understandably concerned at seeing inflation erode the value of their retirement income. The Government’s recently announced reforms on the use of surpluses in d...

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