State Retirement Pensions: Expenditure
Commons · Question 66317 · Tabled 9 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Max Wilkinson
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what comparative assessment she has made of the level of spending as a proportion of GDP on the state pension (a) other European nations, (b) other developed economies and (c) the UK.
Answer
Answered by Torsten Bell, 15 Jul 2025
It is difficult to make comprehensive direct comparisons between different countries’ spending on State Pensions as a proportion of GDP because there are many fundamental differences in the types of system and the wider social and economic contexts. There...