1953, the basic pension is £141.85 from April 2022, if living in the U.K. or an eligible country; However, people who retired in a non-eligible country in 2000, when the full basic rate was £67.50 a week in 2000, will still be receiving the same rate. A 2021 enquiry by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Frozen Pensions (one of many APPGs) in the UK Parliament found that one in two of the approximately 230,000 frozen pensioners in Australia were receiving £65 UK pounds or less. Lobby groups During and since the Carson case, various groups and individuals have been lobbying politicians both in the UK and in the countries in which the pensioners are resident, and petitions have been raised. There is an international consortium of lobby groups, funded by the member organisations, British Pensions in Australia (BPIA) and the Canadian Alliance of British Pensioners (CABP), funded by the memberships and donations of individual members. BPIA and CABP jointly own the International Consortium of British Pensioners (ICBP), and they liaise with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Frozen British Pensions (APPG) in the UK Parliament. Sir Roger Gale, Conservative MP for North Thanet, is chair of the Frozen Pensions APPG. In 2015 he wrote a letter to all parliamentarians inviting them to join the group. There are three vice-chairs from the House of Lords and all major parties are represented among the seven vice-chairs. The APPG submitted a report based on around 800 submissions to Parliament in 2021, stating its concerns about the effects of the policy on British war veterans, former public servants, members of the Windrush Generation who had returned to their country of birth, and many others. Canada Anne Puckridge, an expatriate living in Canada, who was 93 years old in 2018 when she delivered a petition to Downing Street, is the ambassador of the ICBP , and she has been campaigning since 2001 for pension parity. She is a former college lecturer and served as an intelligence officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service during the Second World War. Australia It was revealed in the 2021 APPG report that the Australian Government had made a series of representations to the British Government over several years, including at Ministerial level, to no avail. The UK frozen pensions policy means that Australia subsidises UK pensioners resident in Australia. 2002 legal challenge In April 2002, writer Annette Carson, a UK