Employment Protection

HC Deb 06 February 1992 vol 203 cc269-70W

Mr. Frank Field

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the number of contributions he has made under section 123 of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978; and if he will state the extent to which in each case any deficit in funds was made good by his Department for each year since 1978.

Mr. Forth

The information is not available in the form requested. Total payments to occupational pension schemes under section 123 of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 for each financial year to 1989–90, the latest available date, were as follows:

Year	Expenditure
	(£000)
1978–79	87
1979–80	247
1980–81	582
1981–82	386
1982–83	365

Year	Expenditure
	(£ 000)
1983–84	287
1984–85	646
1985–86	289
1986–87	514
1987–88	929
1988–89	628
1989–90	525