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State Retirement Pensions: Reciprocal Arrangements

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Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 146826, tabled on 17 February 2023

Question

Mr Alistair Carmichael
Liberal Democrat
Orkney and Shetland
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help increase the number of reciprocal agreements on state pensions with other countries.

Answer

Laura Trott
Conservative
Sevenoaks
Commons

Answered on

27 February 2023

The Government does not have a policy to increase the number of countries with which the UK has reciprocal agreements on state pensions. For this reason, no steps are being taken to this end.

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Department for Work and Pensions
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