§ Mr. Hoosonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will make arrangements for the pension rights of employees of the Forestry Commission, of whatever grade, to be transferable in the event of any such employee leaving the employment of the Forestry Commission.
§ Mr. Harold LeverThe staff of the Forestry Commission are not civil servants, but their superannuation terms follow those of the civil service closely, and they have similar opportunities for transferring their pension rights between a wide range of public sector employments.
130WAs regards transferability with the private sector, I would refer the hon. Gentleman to the speech on 29th April of my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to the then Ministry of Labour, in which he indicated that further developments must await the outcome of the general review of the social security system.—[Vol. 763, c. 845–52.]