Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the effect on members of the Windrush generation living in frozen rate countries of the policy not to uprate the pensions of UK pensioners living overseas unless there is a legal requirement to do so or where there is a reciprocal agreement in place that provides for that uprating.

DWP continues to support the cross-government commitment, actively supporting people of the Windrush generation and working closely with the Home Office.

The policy on up-rating UK state pensions overseas is a long-standing one of successive post-war Governments. The UK State Pension is payable worldwide and is uprated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so. There are no current plans to change this.