§ Mr. WatersonTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in the working population have no private pension provision. [117102]
§ Maria EagleInformation is not available in the form requested. However, the recent Green Paper "Simplicity, security and choice: Working and Saving98W for Retirement" (Cm 5677-Chart at page 51) noted that, in 2001–02, more than half of all employees were contributing to a private pension. The Family Resources Survey 2001–02, on which the relevant Green Paper material was based, indicated that 11.8 million employees (45 per cent. of the total) were not at that time contributing to a private pension. Many of these may, of course, have private pension provision to which they were not contributing at that time.