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Workplace Pensions: Index Linking

Commons · Question 97731 · Tabled 5 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 15 Dec 2025

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Asked by Joshua Reynolds

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of members of defined benefit pension schemes with pre-1997 service who have received no discretionary pension increases in the last ten years; and what steps he

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Answered by Torsten Bell, 15 Dec 2025

Analysis published by the Pensions Regulator indicates that, as of March 2023, around 17 per cent of members of private sector defined benefit pension schemes do not receive any pre-1997 indexation on benefits. This information can be found at: thepension...