State Retirement Pensions
Work and Pensions
Written answers and statements, 2 November 2009
John Mason (Spokesperson (Work and Pensions); Glasgow East, Scottish National Party)
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what plans her Department has for future increases in the level of the state pension.
Angela Eagle (Minister of State (Pensions and the Ageing Society), Department for Work and Pensions; Wallasey, Labour)
We have given a commitment to increase the basic state pension by 2.5 per cent. or the level of the September Retail Prices Index, whichever is higher.
We are committed to introduce earnings uprating of the basic state pension in 2012-13, subject to affordability and the fiscal position, or in any event by the end of the next Parliament at the latest.
The Government would inform Parliament of proposed benefit levels and tax thresholds for 2010-11 at the pre-Budget report.