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Written Question
South Sudan: Armed Conflict
Thursday 9th June 2016

Asked by: Baroness Hooper (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what provision they make for uprating the UK state pension for UK citizens living in British Overseas Territories.

Answered by Baroness Altmann

The Government has a clear position, which has remained the same for around 70 years and we have no plans to change this policy: UK State Pensions are payable worldwide and uprated abroad where we have a legal requirement to do so for example in the European Economic Area or countries where we have a reciprocal agreement that allows for uprating. Annual increases are paid to UK state pension recipients and in Bermuda and in Gibraltar.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 24 Feb 2016
Pensions: British Citizens Overseas

"My Lords, can my noble friend tell us what will happen to the some 400,000 pensioners living in European Union countries should the UK vote to leave the European Union? Will their pensions be frozen, either partially or totally?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 11 Mar 2015
Pensions: British Pensioners Overseas

"My Lords—..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 11 Mar 2015
Pensions: British Pensioners Overseas

"My Lords, can my noble friend tell us about the situation for British pensioners in the overseas territories, such as the Falkland Islands, St Helena, Gibraltar and so on? Would it be possible for the scheme of partial uprating described by my noble friend Lady Benjamin to apply at least …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 17 Jun 2014
EU: Youth Unemployment (EUC Report)

"My Lords, as a new member of the sub-committee last year, I was pleased to be able to discuss the choice of subject for the latest report and agreed wholeheartedly that the issue of youth unemployment was the one that caused the most concern, affecting the whole of Europe, and …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 10 Jul 2013
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill

"My Lords, as an example of the category of person that the amendment is intended to cover, I support it.

Having lived for some 30 years in a shared household with my sister—a jointly owned home, with shared management and payment of household overheads, and the commitment of a happy …..."
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