Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many UK pensioners whose pensions are frozen because they live overseas have moved back to the UK in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

There were 2,190 recipients of the UK State Pension who were resident overseas with non-uprated State Pensions on 31^st May 2015 and who were resident in the UK on 31^st May 2016.

Source: DWP Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study 100% data.

Notes:

1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
2. The administrative data on State Pension represents snapshots of information. To answer the question two snapshots of data have been compared but there could have been additional movements of residency during this time that would not be captured – for example if someone moved back to the UK but then left again before 31^st May 2016.