§ Mr. Gareth Wardellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he has any plans to include years of war service as contributing towards Civil Service pension schemes other than the transfer of war service from the National Health Service superannuation scheme for the Civil Service pension scheme.
§ Mr. BrookeThe reckoning of war service for Civil Service superannuation purposes is governed by the Superannuation Act 1946. This, and regulations made under it, provided that people who entered the Civil Service for the first time before 30 June 1950 could count their full-time service in the armed forces during the war as though it had been unestablished service in the Civil Service. In recent years, the reckoning of war service concession has been extended to employees in the other public services, ie to local government and NHS employees, teachers, policemen and firemen. People who entered pensionable public service employment before 1 July 1950 and who, without a break in pensionable employment, have subsequently had their accrued pension benefits transferred to the Civil Service pension scheme may therefore count their war service for Civil Service pension purposes to the extent: that it would have reckoned had they remained subject to their former pension scheme. There are no plans to extend the war service concession further.