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Written Question
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
Monday 15th May 2023

Asked by: Rob Roberts (Independent - Delyn)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average amount of state pension paid to individuals who live outside the UK is; and if he will provide a breakdown of the average state pension payment in each country in which recipients reside.

Answered by Laura Trott - Chief Secretary to the Treasury

In November 2020, the average (mean) amount of State Pension paid to individuals who live outside the UK was £70.61 per week.

Table 1. Average Amount of State Pension paid to individuals who live outside the UK, November 2020

Residency

Mean Weekly State Pension Amount

Outside United Kingdom

£ 70.61

Source: Stat-Xplore - Home (dwp.gov.uk)

Below is a table of the average (mean) amount of State Pension paid to individuals who live outside the UK, broken down by country of residence, in November 2020.

Table 2. Average Amount of State Pension by Country of Residence, November 2020

Country of Residence

Mean Weekly State Pension Amount

Abroad - Not known

£ 112.62

Albania

£ 110.57

Alderney

£ 126.99

Algeria

£ 62.41

Andorra

£ 94.96

Anguilla

£ 64.93

Antigua

£ 74.02

Argentina

£ 65.18

Aruba

£ 60.29

Ascension Island

£ 91.68

Australia

£ 50.09

Austria

£ 49.24

Azerbaijan

£ 166.77

Bahamas

£ 66.64

Bahrain

£ 97.27

Bangladesh

£ 39.49

Barbados

£ 116.97

Belarus

£ 111.17

Belgium

£ 63.62

Belize

£ 85.01

Bermuda

£ 81.36

Bolivia

£ 106.19

Bosnia and Herzegovina

£ 73.12

Botswana

£ 75.98

Brazil

£ 81.20

Brunei

£ 121.78

Bulgaria

£ 122.47

Burkina Faso

£ 54.09

Cambodia

£ 119.76

Cameroon

£ 58.81

Canada

£ 46.34

Cape Verde

£ 52.18

Cayman Islands

£ 89.42

Chile

£ 72.13

China

£ 96.39

Colombia

£ 89.09

Cook Islands

£ 57.92

Costa Rica

£ 81.75

Cyprus

£ 122.54

Denmark

£ 58.40

Dom Commonwealth (Dominica)

£ 77.73

Dominican Republic

£ 107.52

Dutch Caribbean

£ 67.76

Ecuador

£ 85.95

Egypt

£ 78.64

El Salvador

£ 80.36

Equatorial Guinea

£ 142.11

Ethiopia

£ 88.34

Falkland Islands and Dependencies

£ 85.64

Faroe Islands

£ 33.01

Fiji

£ 73.66

Finland

£ 58.89

France

£ 113.52

French Overseas Departments

£ 84.34

French Polynesia

£ 55.84

Gambia

£ 91.46

Germany

£ 46.48

Ghana

£ 56.69

Gibraltar

£ 100.77

Greece

£ 109.44

Greenland

£ 23.21

Grenada

£ 77.33

Guam

£ 83.49

Guatemala

£ 77.73

Guernsey

£ 84.86

Guyana

£ 60.60

Honduras

£ 79.02

Hong Kong

£ 85.42

Hungary

£ 102.32

Iceland

£ 71.68

India

£ 50.10

Indonesia

£ 106.53

Iran

£ 70.85

Iraq

£ 64.11

Ireland

£ 66.41

Isle of Man

£ 127.85

Israel

£ 101.27

Italy

£ 56.79

Jamaica

£ 116.05

Japan

£ 46.97

Jersey

£ 70.02

Jordan

£ 67.90

Kazakhstan

£ 124.13

Kenya

£ 79.34

Kuwait

£ 103.54

Kyrgyzstan

£ 76.07

Laos

£ 100.66

Lebanon

£ 88.20

Lesotho

£ 59.64

Liechtenstein

£ 28.62

Luxembourg

£ 83.34

Macau

£ 77.52

Madagascar

£ 62.23

Malawi

£ 71.90

Malaysia

£ 77.87

Malta

£ 104.22

Mauritius

£ 108.25

Mexico

£ 74.98

Moldova

£ 124.94

Monaco

£ 111.96

Montserrat

£ 65.67

Morocco

£ 75.51

Mozambique

£ 74.56

Myanmar

£ 84.84

Namibia

£ 70.17

Nepal

£ 63.99

Netherlands

£ 55.81

Nevis, St Kitts-Nevis

£ 75.56

New Caledonia

£ 79.61

New Zealand

£ 46.44

Nicaragua

£ 79.72

Nigeria

£ 27.65

Norfolk Island

£ 55.18

North Macedonia

£ 24.20

Norway

£ 58.24

Oman

£ 89.53

Pakistan

£ 48.74

Panama

£ 96.96

Papua New Guinea

£ 75.49

Paraguay

£ 68.41

Peru

£ 88.02

Philippines

£ 138.86

Poland

£ 59.39

Portugal

£ 119.47

Puerto Rico

£ 77.32

Qatar

£ 113.55

Republic of Croatia

£ 62.10

Republic of Estonia

£ 78.98

Republic of Georgia

£ 129.54

Republic of Latvia

£ 68.34

Republic of Lithuania

£ 42.71

Republic of Slovenia

£ 60.38

Romania

£ 99.40

Russia

£ 85.51

Saint Helena & Dependencies

£ 89.27

San Marino

£ 29.33

Sark

£ 117.68

Saudi Arabia

£ 86.88

Senegal

£ 74.13

Serbia

£ 123.58

Seychelles

£ 79.10

Sierra Leone

£ 52.66

Singapore

£ 89.20

Solomon Islands

£ 79.08

Somalia

£ 44.20

South Africa

£ 56.52

South Korea

£ 41.69

Spain

£ 120.61

Sri Lanka

£ 59.98

St Lucia

£ 76.63

St Vincent & Grenadines

£ 80.10

State Union of Serbia and Montenegro

£ 53.44

Sudan

£ 71.27

Suriname

£ 151.95

Swaziland

£ 79.26

Sweden

£ 57.52

Switzerland

£ 51.98

Syria

£ 63.61

Tahiti

£ 77.00

Taiwan

£ 105.85

Tanzania

£ 87.61

Thailand

£ 119.10

The Czech Republic

£ 92.30

The Slovak Republic

£ 49.82

Togo

£ 50.10

Tonga

£ 73.36

Tours (Individuals on Tour)

£ 133.34

Trinidad & Tobago

£ 55.37

Tunisia

£ 88.16

Turkey

£ 132.24

Turks and Caicos Islands

£ 118.32

Uganda

£ 88.33

Ukraine

£ 115.86

United Arab Emirates

£ 107.46

United States

£ 74.19

United States Minor Outlying Islands

£ 75.89

Uruguay

£ 77.74

Vanuatu

£ 85.86

Venezuela

£ 67.62

Vietnam

£ 125.09

Virgin Islands (British)

£ 91.77

Virgin Islands (USA)

£ 72.74

Western Samoa

£ 34.12

Yemen

£ 42.90

Zambia

£ 75.67

Zimbabwe

£ 48.98

Source: Stat-Xplore - Home (dwp.gov.uk)


Written Question
Norfolk Island: Visits Abroad
Monday 24th April 2023

Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many officials from his Department have visited Norfolk Island in each of the past five years.

Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Norfolk Island has been a Territory of the Commonwealth of Australia since 1914 and its governance is a matter for Australia. There are no plans for Ministers to visit Norfolk Island in the next 12 months.


Written Question
Norfolk Island: Visits Abroad
Monday 24th April 2023

Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he plans to visit Norfolk Island in the next 12 months.

Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Norfolk Island has been a Territory of the Commonwealth of Australia since 1914 and its governance is a matter for Australia. There are no plans for Ministers to visit Norfolk Island in the next 12 months.


Written Question
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
Thursday 30th March 2023

Asked by: Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat - North East Fife)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many UK pensioners living overseas had their pensions suspended in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 due to (i) non-return and (ii) late return of life certificates, broken down by country of residence.

Answered by Laura Trott - Chief Secretary to the Treasury

DWP holds data relating to the late and non-return of a Life Certificate for the 2019 period, which resulted in the temporary suspension of a customer’s State Pension payments. In 2019, 26,206 claims were temporarily suspended, which is broken down by country as shown in the following table: -

Country

Number of State Pension claims temporarily suspended in 2019 due to the late or non-return of a completed Life Certificate

India

1,280

Uganda

65

Iceland

11

Costa Rica

24

Ukraine

21

Gambia

37

Jamaica

2,269

Nigeria

1,265

Venezuela

39

Sierra Leone

35

Dominican Republic

30

Ecuador

52

Greece

539

Bulgaria

256

Poland

116

Netherlands

624

Hong Kong

124

Fiji

4

Anguilla

9

Jordan

13

Montserrat

14

Malawi

4

Canada

15,798

Cook Islands

0

Norfolk Islands

3

Papua New Guinea

11

Western Samoa

2

Ascension Island

1

Lesotho

8

Dominica

277

South Korea

52

Oman

55

Lebanon

35

Romania

69

Peru

33

Serbia

63

Namibia

26

Libya

3

Tonga

4

Cape Verde Islands

5

Belarus

2

Bangladesh

473

Mauritius

125

Azerbaijan

4

Kazakhstan

2

Vietnam

74

Virgin Islands (British)

25

Estonia

10

Taiwan

19

Panama

36

Uruguay

19

Kuwait

28

Liechtenstein

6

Antilles (Netherlands)

11

St Kitts & Nevis

76

Switzerland

1,529

Brazil

164

Vanuatu

11

Bolivia

30

Cambodia

37

Nepal

26

Brunei

9

Bosnia Herzegovina

7

Ethiopia

14

Iran

14

Hungary

127

Swaziland

29

Russia

23

As a result of the outbreak of COVID in 2020, DWP suspended the Life Certificate exercise in March 2020, to ensure that our customers were not negatively impacted by any postal service issues which could have resulted in their State Pension payments being temporarily suspended. Therefore, DWP does not hold any data for this period.

DWP reintroduced the Life Certificate exercise in November 2021. Therefore, DWP does not hold any data for 2021, as any potential suspensions would be applied after 16 weeks of issue of the Life Certificate, which would mean that the suspension occurred in 2022.

The Management Information used has been taken from the same operational source data systems as our published administrative data. However, as this Management Information is not a recognised National or Official Statistic, it has not been subjected to the same level of Quality Assurance. As a result, these figures should be treated with caution.


Written Question
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
Thursday 23rd March 2023

Asked by: Margaret Ferrier (Independent - Rutherglen and Hamilton West)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of a UK pension live in countries without a reciprocal social security agreement with the UK by (a) the country they live in and (b) their gender.

Answered by Laura Trott - Chief Secretary to the Treasury

This information is published on Stat-Xplore https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk and currently extends to November 2020.

The number of people in receipt of a UK State Pension living in countries without a reciprocal social security agreement with the UK is 298,294.

The breakdown by country and gender are shown in the tables below:

Country of State Pension receipt

Male

Female

Antigua

141

166

Albania

8

7

Algeria

13

5

Andorra

91

74

Anguilla

33

48

Antilles (Netherlands)

20

19

Argentina

128

132

Aruba

..

6

Ascension Island

7

..

Australia

100,047

122,289

Bahamas

116

139

Bahrain

79

48

Bangladesh

175

795

Belize

57

38

Bolivia

17

12

Botswana

89

55

Brazil

485

284

Brunei

16

8

Burkina Faso

..

..

Burma (Myanmar)

..

..

Cameroon

6

5

Cape Verde Islands

..

6

Cayman Islands

111

78

Chile

168

141

China People's Republic

249

74

Colombia

128

127

Cook Islands

9

..

Costa Rica

65

38

Dom Commonwealth (Dominica)

217

244

Dominican Republic

26

17

Country of State Pension receipt

Male

Female

Ecuador

54

33

Egypt

189

116

El Salvador

8

5

Equatorial Guinea

..

..

Ethiopia

22

7

Falkland Islands & Dep

47

26

Faroe Islands

5

7

Fiji

63

28

French Polynesia

..

..

Gambia

44

23

Ghana

451

388

Greenland

..

..

Grenada

402

500

Guatemala

7

5

Guyana

110

101

Honduras

6

8

Hong Kong

1,510

904

India

2,145

2,113

Indonesia

314

42

Iran

21

11

Iraq

5

..

Japan

4,644

2,158

Jordan

72

46

Kampuchea

40

..

Kenya

345

305

Kuwait

10

5

Laos

19

..

Lebanon

73

49

Lesotho

6

7

Macau

7

..

Country of State Pension receipt

Male

Female

Malagasy Republic

6

5

Malawi

39

31

Malaysia

1,072

1,159

Mexico

241

228

Monaco

246

143

Montserrat

29

40

Morocco

112

70

Mozambique

9

..

Namibia

49

42

Nepal

29

13

Nevis, St Kitts-Nevis

131

148

New Caledonia

8

10

Nicaragua

15

6

Nigeria

1,090

804

Norfolk Island

..

..

Oman

71

29

Pakistan

1,103

1,579

Panama

23

14

Papua New Guinea

8

5

Paraguay

14

8

Peru

66

64

Qatar

41

15

Republic of Azerbaijan

11

..

Republic of Belarus

13

12

Republic of Georgia

19

..

Republic of Kazakhstan

12

..

Republic of Kyrgyzstan

5

..

Republic of Moldova

5

..

Republic of Yemen

172

501

Russian Federation

95

41

San Marino

..

..

Saudi Arabia

75

20

Senegal

..

8

Seychelles

73

78

Sierra Leone

18

27

Singapore

514

359

Country of State Pension receipt

Male

Female

Solomon Islands

..

..

Somalia

9

13

South Africa

12,932

17,411

South Korea

288

91

Sri Lanka

557

572

St Helena & Deps

56

48

St Lucia

376

454

St Vincents & Grenadines

221

229

Sudan

5

..

Surinam

5

..

Swaziland

42

37

Syria

5

..

Tahiti

7

..

Taiwan

88

20

Tanzania

54

23

Thailand

4,777

586

Togo

..

..

Tonga

8

6

Trinidad & Tobago

456

843

Tunisia

62

53

Turks & Caicos Islands

17

6

Uganda

47

26

Ukraine

59

33

United Arab Emirates

431

180

United States Minor Outlying Islands

..

5

Uruguay

35

27

Vanuatu

24

13

Venezuela

24

16

Vietnam

105

14

Virgin Islands (British)

28

19

Western Samoa

..

..

Zambia

79

86

Zimbabwe

311

546

Please note:

1. The ".." denotes a nil or negligible number of claimants or award amount based on a nil or negligible number of claimants.


Written Question
Community Diagnostic Centres: Endoscopy
Wednesday 22nd February 2023

Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Community Diagnostic Centres are (a) operational in England and (b) provide endoscopy treatments; and if he will list the Diagnostic Centres that (i) currently provide and (ii) plan to provide endoscopy treatments.

Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

92 Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) are operational in England. The following provided endoscopy treatments in 2022/23:

- Barking Community Hospital CDC

- Basildon Community Diagnostics CDC

- Bishop Auckland CDC

- Cannock Chase CDC

- CDC Poole at Dorset Health Village

- Clacton CDC

- Clatterbridge Diagnostics CDC

- Coventry City Community

- Darlington Memorial CDC

- East Norfolk CDC

- East Surrey CDC

- Humber Coast and Vale CDC

- Kidderminster Treatment Centre CDC

- Kings Mill CDC

- Lymington New Forest Hospital CDC

- Manchester and Trafford CDC

- Mile End Hospital CDC

- Norfolk and Waveney CDC

- Northern Care Alliance CDC – multi-site

- Northern Care Alliance – Salford

- Penrith CDC

- Portsmouth CDC

- Preston Fatima CDC

- Preston Healthport CDC

- Queen Mary’s Hospital Roehampton CDC

- Queen Mary’s Hospital Roehampton CDC (Kingston)

- Rossendale CDC (Burnley General Hospital)

- Slough CDC

- South Warwickshire CDC

- St Helen’s CDC

- St Mary’s Community Hospital CDC

- Stoke on Trent CDC

- University Hospital of North Durham CDC

- Warwickshire North CDC

- West Berkshire Community Hospital CDC

- West Norfolk CDC

The following approved CDCs including expansions to existing CDCs are planning to provide endoscopy treatments:

- Andover CDC

- Bradford District and Craven CDC

- Cannock Chase CDC

- CDC Poole @ Dorset Health Village Club

- Clacton CDC

- East Surrey CDC

- Hinckley CDC

- Island CDC

- Kidderminster CDC

- Lymington New Forest Hospital CDC

- Manchester and Trafford CDC

- Mansfield CDC

- Northern Care Alliance CDC – Oldham

- Queen Mary’s Roehampton CDC

- Rossendale CDC

- St Helens CDC

- Westmorland CDC


Written Question
Norfolk Island and Pitcairn Islands: Festivals and Special Occasions
Tuesday 24th January 2023

Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has made representations to the governments of (a) the Pitcairn Islands and (b) Norfolk Island on the celebration of Bounty Day on 23 January 2023.

Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The Overseas Territory of the Pitcairn Islands is a valued member of the British family. Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, as Minister of State for Overseas Territories, sent a message of congratulations to the Pitcairn Islands on 23 January, as will Her Excellency The Governor. The Administrator will join the community in their celebrations in the Territory. The Pitcairn Island flag flew from the London headquarters of the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office on 23 January. Norfolk Island has been a Territory of the Commonwealth of Australia since 1914 and its governance is a matter for Australia.


Written Question
Imports: Norfolk Island
Tuesday 17th January 2023

Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much (a) rough wood, (b) sowing seeds, (c) instructional models, (d) cheese and (e) scrap aluminium the UK has imported from Norfolk Island in the last five years.

Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

We have no record of any of the goods in question being imported into the UK from Norfolk Island in the last five years.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK. HMRC releases this information monthly, as a National Statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS), which is available via their dedicated website (www.uktradeinfo.com). From this website, it is possible to build your own data tables based upon bespoke search criteria.

Classification codes (according to the Harmonised System) are available to assist you in accessing published trade statistics data in the UK Global Tariff. Goods moving to and from the UK are identified by an eight-digit commodity code. These are publicly available from the UK Trade Tariff at www.gov.uk/trade-tariff.


Written Question
Overseas Trade: Norfolk Island
Tuesday 17th January 2023

Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the value of (a) imports and (b) exports between the UK and Norfolk Island.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon. gentlemen’s Parliamentary Question of 9 January is attached.


Written Question
Overseas Investment: Norfolk Island
Tuesday 17th January 2023

Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the value of UK direct investment in Norfolk Island.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon. gentlemen’s Parliamentary Question of 9 January is attached.