Pay and Pensions

HC Deb 06 February 1979 vol 962 cc156-8W

Mr. Viggers

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list in the Official Report the service pension payable to a man in each rank below the rank of warrant officer (II) assuming 22 years' service and retirement dates of (a) 30 August 1950, (b) 1 January 1960, (c) 1 January 1970, (d) 1 January 1979 and (e) projected to 1 May 1980 to include the effect of pay increases scheduled to be effective by that date.

Mr. Robert C. Brown

The information requested is set out in the table below with the exception of (e). It is not possible to quote rates of pension for retirements on 1 May 1980 since the pay of the Armed Forces—on which pension is based—is decided by the Government in the light of the recommendations of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body which has not yet reported on the rates it considers appropriate from 1 April 1979.

	(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)
	Retirement on 30 August 1950	Retirement on 1 January 1960	Retirement on 1 January 1970	Retirement on 1 January 1979
Rating	Pension on discharge	Pension in issue	Pension on discharge	Pension in issue	Pension on discharge	Pension in issue if permanently incapable of full-time employment because of physical or mental incapcity. Otherwise as in previous column	Pension on discharge	Pension in issue
	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£
Able Rating and equivalent	64	449	115	480	196	587	1,313	1,313
Leading Rating	77	543	143	600	244	731	1,613	1,613
Petty Officer and equivalent	79	557	187	781	306	917	1,743	1,743
Chief Petty Officer and equivalent	82	579	211	881	354	1,061	1,922	1,922

NOTES: —

Pensions increases are not normally put into payment until the pensioner reaches age 55. It has been assumed, in all the examples above, that the pensioner completed his 22-year engagement at age 40.