HC Deb 26 June 1996 vol 280 cc147-8W
Mr. Pickthall

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 4 June,Official Report, column 384, if he will set out the complex issues delaying the entry of general practitioner practice staff into the NHS pension scheme. [34265]

Mr. Malone

Before the scheme could be extended to general practitioner practice staff, we need to consider the potential effect in actuarial terms of the increase in the scheme's overall liabilities; the appropriate scope of the scheme if made available to the employees of independent contractors rather than national health service staff; the appropriate employer's contribution rate for a new category of staff not employed by the NHS; as well as resourcing and streams of funding.