Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times officials in his Department have met affected Equitable Life policyholders in the last 12 months.

The Government allocated £1.5 billion to the Equitable Life Payment Scheme. Before it ceased operations in 2016, the Scheme issued £1.12 billion in tax-free payments to nearly 933,000 policyholders. The remainder of the £1.5 billion has been set aside for future payments to the With-Profits Annuitants. Further information is available in the Final Report on the Scheme. (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/equitable-life-payment-scheme-final-report).

At 31 December 2023, the total value of payments made by the Equitable Life Payment Scheme was £1,330,835,466.52.