Civil Servants (Allowances and Pensions)

HC Deb 16 March 1989 vol 149 cc300-1W

Mr. Barry Field

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many pensioner civil servants receive indexed allowances and pensions.

Mr. Brooke

Principal Civil Service pension scheme pensions, in common with other public service pensions, are index-linked under the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971, as amended. There were about 381,000 such pensions in payment to retired civil servants during 1988–89.