State Retirement Pensions: Uprating

(asked on 27th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is his policy to restore the triple lock on pensions in (a) 2023-24 and (b) future years.


Answered by
Laura Trott Portrait
Laura Trott
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 1st November 2022

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is currently conducting his statutory annual review of State Pension and benefit rates. We cannot pre-empt the outcome of that review, which will be announced in due course.

Our priority is to protect the most vulnerable, including those who cannot increase their earnings through work, such as pensioners who are in a unique position

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