questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to increase the (a) basic and (b) new state pension by at least the September 2023 rate of increase in average earnings.
answerText: The outcome of the Secretary of State’s review of benefits rates, including the State Pension, for 2023 will be announced in the coming weeks. Following his review, the new rates will come into force from April 2024. We cannot pre-empt this review.
heading: State Retirement Pensions