§ Mr. Marlowasked the Minister for the Civil Service what are the average current pensions paid to public servants who retired in the first year of index linking and who were then on one, one-and-a-half, 221W two, two-and-a-half, three, three-and-a-half and four times national earnings, respectively; what were the equivalent pensions at the time of retirement; and how these compare with the average pensions of those who retired at the same time on the same levels of income but who are not in receipt of public service pensions.
§ Mr. ChannonInformation in the form requested is not held centrally for all the public service pension schemes. However, the figures are as follows for civil servants who retired at the time of the passing of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 when the average national earnings of a full-time male employee were £33.30 per week:
Earnings at time of retirement Pension at the time of retirement (1971)* Current pension £ per week £ per week £ per week 33.30 9.57 24.55 49.95 14.36 36.82 66.60 19.15 49.09 83.25 23.93 61.37 99.90 28.72 73.64 116.55 33.51 85.91 133.20 38.30 98.18 * This assumes the Civil Service pensioner had reckonable service of 23 years. This was the average reckonable service of civil servants who retired on age grounds in 1971. I regret that no comparable information is available in relation to those retiring from outside occupations, whose current pensions will have been determined by their conditions of service and the practices of the pension scheme to which they belong.