§ Mr. David ShawTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his answer of 26 April,Official Report, columns 292–94, what amounts of pension costs are attributable to current public sector pensioners (a) in 1979 and (b) the most recent year for each Department or pension scheme; and if he will list the source references which show how such items are disclosed in national accounts.
§ Mr. PortilloThe costs of benefits, including transfer values, paid by each of the main public service pension schemes in 1979–80 and 1992–93 are as follows:
1979–80 £m 1992–93 £m NHS Superannuation Scheme (England and Wales) 299.4 1,689.1 NHS Superannuation Scheme (Scotland) 36.4 243.4 Teachers Superannuation Scheme (England and Wales) 437.1 2,503.0 Teachers Superannuation Scheme (Scotland) 58.1 269.2 Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme 584.0 2,156.2 Armed Forces Pension Scheme 460.1 1,732.3 Local Government Superannuation Scheme (England and Wales) 543.3 12,209.8 Local Government Superannuation Scheme (Scotland) 52.5 1220.4 1 Figures for 1990–91, the most recent year for which figures are available. For the NHS, teachers, civil service and armed forces schemes the source references are the appropriation 201W accounts for 1979–80 and the supply estimates for 1992–93. For the local government schemes, the source references are the yearbooks of "Local Government Financial Statistics".
The costs above are not shown individually in national accounts, but are shown in aggregate in table 4.10 of the "United Kingdom National Accounts"—the CSO Blue Book, HMSO, 1992. Their treatment is described in the "United Kingdom National Accounts, Sources and Methods", HMSO 1985.