§ Mr. Robert McCartneyTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland for which public sector pension schemes he currently has responsibility; how many members of each of those schemes have switched or transferred out to personal pension providers in the last five years; and which schemes do not allow re-entry. [5116]
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§ Sir John WheelerThe details requested are not held centrally but the number of members who have opted out of public service occupational pension schemes is somewhere in the region of 2,000 to 2,500. It is not possible to be more specific nor is it possible to identify what proportion of this number switched or transferred out to personal pension providers.
In keeping with Government policy, Departments responsible for public service schemes have introduced, or are in the process of introducing, amendments which allow current employees who were victims of mis-selling to re-enter their occupational pension schemes. The
Complaints 1991–1996 Complaint Male Female Total Concluded Ongoing Tribunal 1991 Sex 4 4 8 All 0 1 Religion 1 0 1 All 0 0 Sex and religion 0 1 1 All 0 0 Total 5 5 10 10 0 1 1992 Sex 4 9 13 All 0 1 Religion 6 0 6 All 0 0 Sex and religion 1 1 2 All 0 0 Sexual harassment 1 4 5 All 0 0 Total 12 14 26 26 0 1 1993 Sex 2 0 2 All 0 0 Religion 9 0 9 8 1 5 Sex and religion 0 0 0 11 0 0 Sexual Harassment 0 7 7 All 0 0 Total 11 7 18 17 1 5 1994 Sex 8 6 14 13 1 2 Religion 12 3 15 All 0 6 Sex and religion 1 0 1 0 1 1 Sexual harassment 0 7 7 All 0 0 Total 21 16 37 35 2 9 1995 Sex 6 3 9 8 1 2 Religion 11 2 13 11 2 2 Sex and religion 5 1 6 1 5 5 Sexual harassment 0 7 7 4 3 3 Total 22 13 35 24 11 12 1996 Sex 5 4 9 3 6 4 Religion 6 1 7 5 2 1 Sex and religion 1 2 3 0 3 1 Sexual harassment 1 15 16 12 4 1 Total 13 22 35 20 15 7 Tribunal cases are included under concluded or ongoing. They are not additional to.
The RUC remains committed to a policy of equality of opportunity for all its members and is in the process of implementing a range of policies and initiatives to this end.
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