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July 20, 2016

APPG welcomes new Ministers and Shadows

The APPG for Frozen British Pensions welcomes the appointment of Damian Green as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, and Richard Harrington as the new Minister for Pensions. The group...

July 13, 2016

Former Minister for Pensions warns of Frozen Pension Brexit risk to EU resident British pensioners

Former Liberal Democrat Minster for Pensions, Steve Webb, has written a piece for Money Observer outlining the “far-reaching impacts” of the vote for Brexit on British Pensioners currently living in...

May 23, 2016

APPG Chairman writes for Conservative Home

APPG Chairman Sir Roger Gale MP has written a piece outlining his views on Frozen British Pensions for the Conservative Home website. In it he argues that the government must honour...

May 17, 2016

The Telegraph warns Brexit would leave Expat pensioners in EU ‘£50,000 poorer’ with a frozen pension

The Telegraph has run a story warning that British Pensioners living in the European Union face a frozen pension in the future if Britain votes for Brexit. At the moment British...

May 12, 2016

Video and Hansard – Commons Debate on Pensions Uprating (UK Pensioners Living Overseas) – 11 May 2016

11 May 2016  2.10 pm Ian Blackford (Ross, Skye and Lochaber) (SNP) I beg to move, That this House notes with concern that the pensions of 550,000 UK pensioners residing...

May 6, 2016

MPs to debate frozen pensions – 11 May 2016

APPG Vice Chair, Ian Blackford MP and SNP MP Mhairi Black have successfully secured a Backbench Business Debate on the Uprating of pensions for UK pensioners living overseas. This means...

March 29, 2016

Ian Blackford calls for a debate on Frozen Pensions

On 24 March 2016 APPG Vice Chair Ian Blackford MP took the opportunity of the Easter Adjournment Debate to call for a debate on the Uprating Regulations that freeze overseas...

March 24, 2016

APPG fails in bid to annul the Uprating Regulations

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Frozen British Pensions has regrettably failed in its attempt to secure a vote on the government’s Social Security Benefit Uprating Regulations 2016,  which now look set...

March 17, 2016

SNP hammers government on frozen pensions

Seven SNP Members of Parliament took the opportunity of Business Questions on 17 March 2016 to challenge the government on frozen pensions and demand a debate on the Social Security...

March 10, 2016

EDM 1235: APPG launches parliamentary challenge to the measure used to freeze overseas state pensions

A Vice Chair of the APPG on Frozen British Pensions has today tabled a parliamentary motion, EDM1235, seeking to challenge the measure brought forward by the government to freeze the State...

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