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State Retirement Pensions: Expenditure

Asked by Max WilkinsonLiberal DemocratDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 14 October 2025UIN 77227

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the cost of state pensions on other public spending priorities.

Answered by Torsten Bell

The Government has published Spending Review 2025, which set departmental spending allocations consistent with the fiscal strategy set out at Autumn Budget 2024 and Spring Statement 2025. This will be updated at Autumn Budget 2025.

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