Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the impact of frozen state pensions on UK state pensioners residing overseas.

The UK's policy on the up-rating of the UK State Pension for recipients living overseas is a longstanding one.

The UK State Pension is payable worldwide without regard to nationality and is uprated abroad where we have a legal requirement to do so.

This approach has been supported by successive governments, over many years with priority given to those living in the UK when drawing up expenditure plans for additional pensioner benefits.