United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 84458
Gurkhas: Pensions
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30 November 2021
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6 December 2021 · Answer
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6 December 2021
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate he has made of the cost of providing Gurkhas on the Gurkha Pension Scheme a retrospective pension equivalent to their UK counterparts.
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30 November 2021
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate he has made of the cost of providing Gurkhas on the Gurkha Pension Scheme a retrospective pension equivalent to their UK counterparts.
Source: Commons
6 December 2021
Answer
We do not make retrospective changes to public pensions. For most Gurkha veterans the 1948 legacy Gurkha Pension Scheme (GPS) provides a pension at least as good, and in many cases better, than that given to their British counterparts with identical perio...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-11-30/84458
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1383516
- uk · wq-1383516 · source updated 6 December 2021