§ Mr. Christopher Wardasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what, under the Government's new pension scheme, would be the life average earnings of a man with earnings of £1,800 17W and £2,000 in alternate years throughout his life, for the purpose of calculation of his pension under the scheme.
§ Mr. EnnalsAssuming constant earnings and no change in the scheme's upper limit of £1,900 throughout the man's working life £1,850.
§ Mr. Christopher Wardasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what pension would be payable on retirement at 65 to a man whose earnings rose evenly throughout his working life from £1,000 per annum to £2,800 per annum under the Government's new pension scheme assuming that there was no rise in average earnings; and what that man's life average earnings will be for the purposes of the National Superannuation and Social Insurance Bill.
§ Mr. EnnalsThe pension payable on retirement would be £638 per annum, or about £12 5s. a week. This would derive from life average earnings, for the purposes of the new scheme, of £1,670 per annum.