Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking on frozen state pensions for British citizens living in Canada.

UK State Pensions are payable worldwide, without regard to nationality and are only uprated abroad where we have a legal requirement to do so, for example in countries with which we have a reciprocal agreement that provides for uprating. This approach has been supported by successive governments over many years.