Supplementary Note submitted by the Department
of Social Security (PS 41C)
| Information on Unfunded Public Service Pension Schemes
|
(information has been compiled from both Departmental and GAD sources. It is broadly appropriate as at 1996-1998,
but does not represent a single point in history)
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|
| AFPS | Fire2
| NHS | Police2 |
PCSPS | TSS | NHS
(Scot)
| TSS
(Scot) |
|
| Active membership1 | 212,000
| 40,000 | 920,000 | 142,000
| 493,000 | 560,000 | 101,000
| 67,000 |
| Deferred membership1 | 237,000
| n/k | 281,000 | n/k
| 227,000 | 296,000 | 54,000
| 24,000 |
| Resignations (a year)3 | n/k
| n/k | n/k | n/k
| 14,000 | 25,700 | n/k
| 1,800 |
Numbers of individual transfers out
(a year)
| 1,800 | n/k | n/k
| n/k | n/k | 1,300
| 450 | 100 |
| Cost of individual transfers out (£) |
£17.6m | n/k | n/k
| n/k | £21m | £43m
| £4.6m | £3.2m |
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1 latest estimates of current position.
2 fire and police schemes are administered by local authorities, these represent figures held centrally.
3 little or no information is held on resignations (they are a matter for personnel departments rather than schemes).
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(prepared by the Treasury)
10 September 1998
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