State Retirement Pensions: Uprating

(asked on 5th October 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government, in the light of the publication of the State Pension uprating analysis on 29 September, whether they intend to provide a version of Chart 1 on Projected changes in pensioner relative poverty which demonstrates pensioner relative poverty after housing costs under the current triple lock.


Answered by
Baroness Sherlock Portrait
Baroness Sherlock
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 22nd October 2026

The Government's policy is to move to using the adjusted triple lock from April 2030 and projections are published on a basis consistent with that policy.

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