§ 73. Mr. Haseldineasked the Minister of Labour how many employees in Great Britain are covered by private pension schemes both contributory and non-contributory; and what is his estimate of the incidence of immobility on account of the non-transferability of many of these schemes.
§ Mr. HattersleyBy 1965 about 12 million persons in the United Kingdom were covered by occupational pension schemes.
No statistical estimate can be made of the extent to which non-preservation of pension rights affects mobility, but the Committee on Preservation of Pension Rights found that the mobility of the great majority of employees is not in practice inhibited by this.