Personal Pension Funds

HC Deb 16 April 2002 vol 383 cc889-90W

Mr. Lilley

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people have personal pension funds. [46918]

Mr. McCartney

The information is in the table.

People who have a personal pension
	Million
Numbers contributing to a personal pension	4.08
Numbers receiving income from a personal pension	0.02
Total number of people with a personal pension.	4.10

Notes:

1 Information is drawn from the Family Resources Survey (FRS) for the year 2000–01 and covers Great Britain only.

Due to the size of the FRS sample and the fact that the Survey relies on self-reporting of pension income the information may be subject to a margin of error.