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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many cases of pension mis-selling there have been in (a) Vale of Clwyd and (b) each region in each of the last 10 years.

Asked by

Chris Ruane (Labour)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 November 2009

Reference

499 c792-3W; 299715

House

House of Commons

Reserve Forces: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the Answer of 9 November 2009 to Question 298468, in what ways the Reserve Forces Pension Scheme differs from the pension scheme offered to regular armed forces.

Asked by

Annette Brooke (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 November 2009

Reference

499 c706W; 299821

House

House of Commons

Ministerial Policy Advisers: Pensions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate she has made of the aggregate cash equivalent transfer value of the pension rights of special advisers in each of the last five financial years.

Asked by

Lord Hammond of Runnymede (Conservative)

Answering body

Cabinet Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 November 2009

Reference

499 c757W; 289081

House

House of Commons

Public Sector: Pensions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will include his most recent estimate of total public sector pension liabilities in his next statement on the pre-Budget report.

Asked by

Lord Hammond of Runnymede (Conservative)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 November 2009

Reference

499 c808W; 299308

House

House of Commons

Pensions

To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the pension arrangements of the Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission; and what is the annual cost of funding those arrangements.

Asked by

Lord Laird (Ulster Unionist Party)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 November 2009

Reference

5805; 714 c228WA

House

House of Lords

Local Government: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which local authority pension funds in the East of England are (a) in surplus and (b) in deficit; and how much the surplus or deficit is in each case.

Asked by

David Ruffley (Conservative)

Answering body

Communities and Local Government

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 November 2009

Reference

499 c279W; 296175

House

House of Commons

Police: Pensions

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much the Home Office paid to each police authority, in each of the past five years for which information is available, to meet their annual pension costs (a) in cash terms, and (b) as a percentage of total payments made to each authority in...

Asked by

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

9 November 2009

Police officers' pensions are governed by the Police Pension Scheme Regulations of 1987 and 2006. The present system of financing police pensions was introduced in April 2006. Each police authority pays employer and officers' pension contributions into a separate account, out of which pensions of retired officers are paid. Where the income into the police authority pensions account from contributions and other payments (such as inward transfer values) is insufficient to meet the cost of pensions in payment, it is topped up by Home Office grant on an annual basis. The Home Office top-up grant to police authorities for police pensions is provided from annually managed expenditure; other payments come out of departmental expenditure limits. Information relating to the financing of police pensions before 2006-07 is not included here. That is the responsibility of individual police authorities and is included in the annual reports published by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), collected independently of the Home Office. The information for 2006-07 to 2008-09 is given in the table below. "Total Payments" include the net general grant as well as specific grants.

	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
	Home Office Top up grant for Pensions	Total Payments*	Top up Pensions as a % of total payments	Home Office Top up grant for Pensions	Total Payments*	Top up Pensions as a % of total payments	Home Office Top up grant for Pensions	Total Payments'	Top up Pensions as a % of total payments
Avon and Somerset	7,670,400	129,195,325	6%	11,592,000	138,011,585	8%	11,915,274	141,835,492	8%
Bedfordshire	1,661,600	49,225,254	3%	1,081,800	50,858,043	2%	2,848,652	54,287,637	5%
Cambridgeshire	3,376,347	58,519,861	6%	31,053	57,437,797	0%	7,759,423	66,618,737	12%
Cheshire	3,271,200	80,184,511	4%	4,878,600	84,478,623	6%	8,225,836	88,299,992	9%
City of London	4,870,400	42,832,177	11%	3,463,200	42,557,107	8%	7,963,961	45,003,780	18%
Cleveland	2,799,200	59,025,628	5%	3,993,200	60,706,966	7%	5,597,237	63,581,621	9%
Cumbria	2,243,200	39,782,621	6%	4,007,600	43,264,712	9%	7,207,777	47,316,460	15%
Derbyshire	2,148,800	76,014,413	3%	6,740,000	82,917,195	8%	7,894,491	85,676,458	9%
Devon and Cornwall	3,092,000	126,867,269	2%	7,814,200	137,475,113	6%	13,085,436	144,759,326	9%
Dorset	5,143,200	53,383,389	10%	7,386,200	58,108,507	13%	6,396,378	57,563,717	11%
Durham	3,252,000	56,066,167	6%	4,052,400	59,929,126	7%	6,205,963	61,500,800	10%
Dyfed-Powys	2,649,600	43,596,156	6%	239,600	41,710,078	1%	6,480,459	47,843,615	14%
Essex	5,450,400	129,072,409	4%	6,645,600	134,785,878	5%	10,412,327	143,650,893	7%
Gloucestershire	3,025,864	48,253,295	6%	4,307,156	51,351,458	8%	5,960,734	53,398,887	11%
Greater Manchester	9,643,200	283,871,056	3%	17,758,600	301,674,260	6%	29,978,417	321,891,598	9%
Gwent	1,588,512	52,944,598	3%	0	53,101,482	0%	4,485,773	58,632,260	8%
Hampshire	7,307,200	146,500,226	5%	8,547,400	153,421,556	6%	19,996,012	168,170,084	12%
Hertfordshire	0	83,099,896	0%	755,200	87,373,349	1%	247,134	89,142,106	0%
Humberside	3,020,000	79,319,778	4%	8,021,400	86,837,653	9%	7,498,618	89,838,629	8%
Kent	3,483,200	145,725,083	2%	11,546,800	159,472,517	7%	7,117,384	159,812,394	4%
Lancashire	9,053,600	135,098,093	7%	12,825,200	142,678,546	9%	13,384,664	147,492,713	9%
Leicestershire	1,197,600	78,166,470	2%	2,346,000	81,305,567	3%	7,371,837	88,174,637	8%
Lincolnshire	6,594,400	51,875,051	13%	10,320,951	57,418,699	18%	9,410,971	58,132,272	16%
Merseyside	16,606,400	175,716,478	9%	24,624,600	188,030,942	13%	27,155,341	195,130,488	14%
Metropolitan Police	13,116,800	1,525,301,687	1%	43,029,200	1,638,051,891	3%	47,658,961	1,682,306,879	3%
Norfolk	4,148,800	65,425,073	6%	6,295,800	70,698,652	9%	8,723,094	74,029,314	12%
North Wales	1,872,800	58,520,746	3%	5,119,600	63,520,687	8%	7,014,761	65,339,165	11%
North Yorkshire	4,296,000	55,315,226	8%	4,886,200	57,741,623	8%	9,817,276	64,126,877	15%
Northamptonshire	1,148,000	49,832,555	2%	2,019,000	52,721,813	4%	4,486,613	56,836,293	8%
Northumbria	8,504,000	139,429,551	6%	10,534,000	145,849,208	7%	20,981,030	157,864,488	13%
Nottinghamshire	3,332,800	88,870,805	4%	9,034,000	98,615,714	9%	11,043,443	104,027,860	11%
South Wales	8,952,800	120,164,766	7%	17,646,800	133,235,014	13%	14,618,489	132,897,043	11%
South Yorkshire	3,060,000	118,044,174	3%	8,653,400	129,749,569	7%	10,587,580	134,569,372	8%
Staffordshire	4,860,800	82,445,051	6%	6,973,800	87,190,971	8%	11,664,788	94,321,706	12%
Suffolk	2,782,400	50,828,801	5%	4,040,800	54,288,607	7%	4,282,824	55,873,031	8%
Surrey	2,207,200	77,993,429	3%	1,083,000	80,071,487	1%	9,742,709	90,593,694	11%
Sussex	6,086,400	123,892,450	5%	10,833,600	133,043,007	8%	16,074,403	140,989,626	11%
Thames Valley	1,716,779	176,624,208	1%	1,100,367	181,164,385	1%	7,235,379	189,824,515	4%
Warwickshire	2,956,000	40,827,249	7%	3,788,400	43,574,349	9%	3,808,717	44,100,085	9%
West Mercia	3,104,000	83,230,795	4%	1,440,584	85,012,659	2%	11,180,425	96,549,242	12%
West Midlands	5,348,800	298,748,312	2%	14,943,400	318,671,629	5%	14,901,496	327,187,994	5%
West Yorkshire	11,413,600	214,903,088	5%	22,794,800	233,347,527	10%	27,443,059	245,865,831	11%
Wiltshire	3,082,400	48,631,361	6%	2,831,600	50,043,098	6%	5,997,205	54,217,530	11%

"Total payments in this case includes all payments from the Home Office to police forces. This includes: the Net General Grant from the Home Office as well as all specific grants paid by the Home Office. It does not include payments made by CLG, redistributed business rates or council tax precepts. The specific grants are as follows: the Crime Fighting Fund, the Basic Command Unit Fund, Community Support Officer/Neighbourhood Policing Fund, the Pensions Deficit Grant, the Counter Terrorism Fund, Rule 2 Grants, Capital Grants, Grants for dedicated security posts and the Metropolitan Police Service Specific Grant."

Date

9 November 2009

Reference

6002; 714 c120-2WA

House

House of Lords

Pension Protection System

As hon. Members are aware some of the administrative resource costs of the pensions regulator (tPR), the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), the Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) and the pensions ombudsman (PO) are recovered through levies raised on pension schemes. The rates for these levies are set in regulations. The PPF...

Member

Angela Eagle (Labour)

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Written statements

Date

9 November 2009

Reference

499 c10-2WS

House

House of Commons

Armed Forces: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether a retired former regular member of the armed forces who is now a member of the regular reserve force is entitled to additions to the existing pension on completion of additional service.

Asked by

Annette Brooke (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

9 November 2009

Reference

499 c37W; 298468

House

House of Commons

Pensions

My honourable friend the Minister of State for Pensions and the Ageing Society (Angela Eagle) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. As honourable Members are aware, some of the administrative resource costs of the Pensions Regulator (tPR), the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), the Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) and the...

Member

Lord McKenzie of Luton (Labour)

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Written statements

Date

9 November 2009

Reference

714 c37-8WS

House

House of Lords

Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Authorised Payments) Amendment Regulations 2009

SI 2009/2930. Together with an explanatory memorandum from the Department for Work and Pensions. Coming into force 1 December 2009.

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Statutory instruments

Date

9 November 2009

Reference

SI 2009/2930

House

House of Commons; House of Lords

Pensions

To ask Her Majesty's Government what benefits and public sector pension rates are normally governed by September's RPI figure; what is the estimated cost in 2010–11 of increasing old age pensions by 2.5 per cent and not taking account of the deflationary figure of -1.4 per cent in September 2009's...

Asked by

Lord Laird (Ulster Unionist Party)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

6 November 2009

I refer the noble Lord to my Answers of 5 May 2009 (WA 105) to Parliamentary Question HL2814 and of 1 June 2009 (WA 08) to Parliamentary Question HL3626. The benefits and pensions ordinarily uprated by September's retail price index are: basic state pension, and rates of widows and bereavement benefits linked to the rate of basic state pension; additional pensions, also known as SERPS or S2P; increments: for the deferment of state pension and guaranteed minimum pensions; attendance allowance; carer's allowance; disability living allowance; maternity allowance; industrial injuries disablement benefit; benefits under the Workmen's Compensation Act and the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis, and Miscellaneous Diseases Scheme; industrial death benefit; widows/bereavement benefits rates are linked to the basic state pension rate; and statutory payments for maternity, paternity, adoption and sick pay. Income-related benefits, such as income support, are usually uprated in line with the September Rossi index, which is retail price index excluding rent, mortgage interest payments, council tax and depreciation costs. Since April 2009, incapacity benefit has been uprated in line with the September Rossi index. Public sector pensions are increased in accordance with Section 59 of the Social Security Pensions Act, 1975 and I refer the noble Lord to my noble friend Lord Patel of Bradford's Answer of 3 March 2009 (WA 141) to Parliamentary Questions HL918 and HL1108. In the 2009 Budget, the Chancellor reaffirmed the Government's commitment to increasing basic state pension, and by extension, widow's benefit and bereavement benefit, in April 2010 by at least 2.5 per cent even if, as expected, retail price inflation was below zero. Uprating basic state pension by 2.5 per cent in April 2010 will deliver an increase worth around £1 billion to pensioners over the course of the year. The current legislation does not allow for benefits and pensions to be reduced in the event of negative inflation so no calculations on benefit and pension reductions have been made. The Government will inform Parliament of proposed benefit levels and tax thresholds for 2010-11 at the Pre-Budget Report.

Date

6 November 2009

Reference

5803; 714 c97-8WA

House

House of Lords

Older People: Retirement

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to their report Building a Society for all ages (page 20, paragraph 15), what will happen to information input by individuals in the course of reviewing options for retirement using those interactive tools; whether the tools will be compartmentalised so that the pension service...

Asked by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

5 November 2009

Reference

5830; 714 c81WA

House

House of Lords

Engagements

I shall obviously look at the matter. When policemen or women retire, they receive their pension. I see no reason why their pension entitlement should be broken, if it is, indeed, an entitlement, and I shall look at what the right hon. Gentleman says.

Answered by

Gordon Brown (Labour)

Answering body

Prime Minister

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

4 November 2009

Reference

498 c854-5

House

House of Commons

Engagements

Is the Prime Minister aware that several police authorities, including Northumbria, are using Home Office guidance as a basis for cutting the pensions of police officers who have been forced to retire when they have been seriously injured on duty? On the principle that we should stand by those who risk their lives and face serious injury protecting us, whether in the armed forces or in the police, will he take a personal interest in the matter and investigate it?

Asked by

Lord Beith (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Prime Minister

Prime Minister's questions - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

4 November 2009

Reference

498 c854-5

House

House of Commons

Pension Protection Fund annual report and accounts 2008-09.

Type

House of Commons papers

Date

4 November 2009

Reference

HC 1084 2008-09

House

House of Commons

Engagements

Asked by

Lord Beith (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Prime Minister

Prime Minister's questions - Lead

Status

Answered

Notes

Lead question not printed

Date

4 November 2009

Reference

498 c854-5; 297508

House

House of Commons

Fire Services: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2009, Official Report, column 585W, on fire services: pensions, when he expects the Government Actuary's report on firefighters' pension schemes to be published.

Asked by

Lynne Jones (Labour)

Answering body

Communities and Local Government

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

3 November 2009

Reference

498 c841-2W; 296954

House

House of Commons

Local Government: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what plans he has to limit the pensions of members of the Local Government Pension Scheme who earn high salaries; what limits he intends to put in place; what estimate he has made of the effect on the Exchequer...

Asked by

Steve Webb (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Communities and Local Government

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 October 2009

Reference

498 c523W; 295678

House

House of Commons

Fire Services: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether he plans to amend the Firefighters Pension Scheme entitlements in respect of high earners who are members of the scheme.

Asked by

Steve Webb (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Communities and Local Government

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 October 2009

Reference

498 c521-2W; 295787

House

House of Commons

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