§ Mr. McNamaraTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many representations were received to her proposals to privatise the administration of the Teachers' Pensions Agency; and how many were opposed to it. [31266]
§ Mr. Robin SquireI refer the hon. Member to table 1 of the paper "The Future of the Teachers' Pensions Agency (TPA): Results of the Government's consultation exercise", which I placed in the Library of the House on 7 June 1995.
We had made no proposals, either before or during that consultation exercise, to let a contract to administer the teachers' superannuation scheme. My announcement of 7 June, Official Report, columns 205–7, said that we shall invite expressions of interest for a contract, but that we shall let such a contract only if it would provide better value for money than keeping the administration of the scheme in the public sector.