Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will review the Government's policy on uprating the State Pension for people living overseas.

There are no plans to review the policy on up-rating the UK State Pensions Overseas.

UK State Pensions are payable worldwide, without regard to nationality, and are only uprated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example in countries with which we have a reciprocal agreement that provides for up-rating.

The policy on the uprating of UK State Pensions paid overseas is a longstanding one.