§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what estimate he has made of the number of people who opted out of(a) the state earnings-related
Number of people with a minimum contribution in the first year of the APP but none in subsequent years United Kingdom Thousands Start year of APP Pension scheme type year before APP start 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 Total 16 7 37 36 30 24 16 SERPS only 13 4 26 27 22 18 12 Occupational pension 1 1 3 2 2 1 1 Mixed: SERPS and occupational pension — — 3 2 2 1 2 Other APP — — — — — 1 1 Other 2 2 5 5 4 2 2 Source: I per cent. sample of national insurance records taken at February 1996.
Notes:
1. — = Nil or negligible.
2. APP = Appropriate personal pension.
3. Minimum contribution—a proportion of national insurance contributions paid into an APP by the DSS.
4. Qualification for SERPS is defined as having earnings over the lower earnings limit in the year.
5. "Other" will include those receiving NI credits, paying class 2 contributions, class 3 contributions, new entrants (i.e. at 16 years old), and any combinations of categories.
6. Because all figures are rounded to the nearest thousand, the sum of the amounts in the individual columns may not agree with the amount shown against the total.
§ Mr. ChurchillTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list those Organisations for Economic Co-operation and Development countries other than the United Kingdom which place geographical limitations on the payment of fully uprated retirement pensions to citizens who have contributed to a state contributory pension scheme. [8187]
§ Mr. HealdOn the basis of the information available to the Department, none.
However, other forms of restriction on payment outside national territories are practised by some other OECD countries.