§ Mr. DewarTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will update his answer of 19 July 1993,Official Report, column 74, in respect of the information contained in the figure from "Options for Equality in State Pension Age".
§ Mr. HagueThe Government Actuary's Department has revised the information contained in figure 7, page 77, of the "Options for Equality in State Pension Age" document for current pension age, age 60 and age 65. The information is contained in the table. These estimates do not include any national health service allocation. There are obvious difficulties in predicting developments so far into the future, including the need to make hypothetical policy assumptions, for example, concerning the conditions for contracting out. For these reasons figures for age 63 have not been updated and the results given should not be interpreted as precise estimates but as broad indicators of the financial effects.
Current state pension age Age 60 Age 65 Year Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. 1994–95 18.25 — — 2025 20.0 22.0 18.5 2035 19.8 21.5 18.7