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Administration of Estates

Commons · Question 17830 · Tabled 10 Jul 2026 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 17 Jul 2026

Question

Asked by Steve Darling

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans does she have to decrease the time taken to return savings to estates of the deceased.

Answer

Answered by Torsten Bell, 17 Jul 2026

On 19 May, I updated Parliament that from the week commencing 25 May, NS&I would start to contact affected estates, with holdings of £10 or more, to reunite them with the holdings owed to them. Remediation will be delivered in phases. NS&I has sin...