{"value":{"id":1892433,"askingMemberId":4602,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2026-03-18T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2026-03-23T00:00:00","uin":"121764","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether consideration was given to laying the provision maintaining the frozen pensions policy, currently within the Social Security Up-Rating Regulations 2026 laid on the 6 March, as a standalone instrument.","answeringBodyId":29,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Work and Pensions","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":5069,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2026-03-24T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 2026 are in general consequential on the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2026 and can only be laid once the Up-rating Order has been approved by Parliament. The Up-rating Regulations were laid on 6 March 2026 and will come into force on the same date as the Up-rating Order on 6 April 2026.</p><p> </p><p>This is a convention that has been in place for a number of years.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1892433","method":"GET"}]}