HC Deb 08 July 1992 vol 211 c220W
Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer of 25 June,Official Report, column 307, if he will ask the Government Actuary to place in the Library the detailed calculation of his estimate of the cost of full retrospective equalisation of pension rights; and how much of this estimate derives from recalculations of existing benefits in payment and the enhancement of pension payments to existing male occupational pensioners.

Miss Widdecombe

A copy of a detailed calculation of the Government Actuary's estimate has been placed in the Library. This was given in response to an inquiry from the European Commission. A copy of the Commission's inquiry has also been placed in the Library.