Written question asked by David Laws (Liberal Democrat) on Thursday, 14 June 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 18 June 2007. It was answered by Stephen Timms (Labour) on Monday, 25 June 2007 on behalf of the Treasury.

Pensions: Public Sector

Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which public sector pension schemes remain open to new workers up to 1 July 2007 with a retirement age of 60 years or less; and if he will make a statement.

Answer: Information on the pension ages currently applied in all public sector schemes is not held centrally, but the position as regards new entrants to the main schemes for which UK Government Ministers are responsible is:"Armed forces, police and firefighters pension schemes have pension ages of 60 or below, and age 65 for those with preserved pension rights. The lower pension ages in these schemes reflect the physical requirements of these occupations.""The NHS, teachers and the civil service pension scheme have been or are being reformed so that new entrants have a pension age of 65 from January 2007 for teachers, July 2007 for civil servants and a date to be finalised in 2008 for the NHS.""The local government pension scheme already had a pension age of 65."

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