§ Sir William Clarkasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what percentage of civil servants are contracted out of the national insurance contribution for the State pension and what percentage pay reduced contributions; and what State pension would be paid to those contracted out or on reduced contributions.
§ Mr. RossiAll but a few civil servants are contracted out of the additional earnings-related component of the State pension. The number of women civil servants paying reduced-rate contributions is not known and could be discovered only at disproportionate expense. Contracted-out civil servants, like other contracted-out contributors, may receive the State basic pension plus any additional component exceeding the guaranteed minimum pension provided by the occupational pension scheme. Those women civil servants paying reduced contributions, like other reduced-rale contributors, do not get any State pension other than that based on their husbands' insurance.