HC Deb 28 June 1988 vol 136 c195W
Mrs. Dunwoody

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what guarantees will be available to employees of British Rail Engineering Ltd. in respect of their full pension entitlement in the event of the privatisation of British Rail Engineering Ltd.

Mr. David Mitchell

British Rail intends that employees of BREL will have the choice of preserving the accrued benefits which they have earned in the British Rail pension scheme, or of transferring those benefits to any new scheme set up by the new owner of BREL