Workplace Pensions: Index Linking
Commons · Question 97731 · Tabled 5 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Question
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
Answer
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...