HC Deb 30 January 1991 vol 184 c549W
Mr. Meacher

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what information he has regarding the income levels of people who have opted out of the state earnings-related pension scheme into personal pensions.

Miss Widdecombe

An examination of a 1 per cent. sample of national insurance records shows that for the year ending 5 April 1989, the latest period for which information is available, the average earnings of those people who had taken out an appropriate personal pension was just under £8,000.