{"value":{"id":1877458,"askingMemberId":5052,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2026-02-02T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2026-02-04T00:00:00","uin":"110121","questionText":"To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of excluding the state pension as a form of taxable income.","answeringBodyId":14,"answeringBodyName":"Treasury","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":5069,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2026-02-10T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Exempting the State Pension from income tax entirely would reduce tax receipts substantially undermining the public services we all rely on – especially the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>However, I can confirm that those whose sole income is the basic and full new State Pension, without any increments, will not pay any income tax this tax year or next.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the Chancellor has said that those whose only income is the basic or new State Pension without any increments will not have to pay income tax over this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will set out more details in due course.</p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"State Retirement Pensions: Taxation","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1877458","method":"GET"}]}