HC Deb 24 July 1997 vol 298 cc740-4W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if she will list the bodies and individuals who have been invited to participate in the pensions review. [10215]

Mr. Denham

We shall be engaging in an extensive level of public consultation to ensure that everyone with an interest can contribute to the pensions review. As part of this process, I wrote on 17 July to a large number of bodies and individuals representing pensioners, employers, employees, consumers, pensions experts and others, inviting contributions to the review. The distribution is shown on the following list.

The list is not meant to be exhaustive and letters will be sent to others on request. We would welcome contributions from any individuals or organisations with an interest in helping us to address the major pensions challenges that we have inherited. The widest possible consultation is essential if we are to achieve a wide and non-partisan consensus on the future for pensions.

The National Pensioners' Convention will be playing a specific and central role in the review to ensure that views of today's pensioners are at the heart of the review process. The NPC will be passing details of the review to all its delegates so that they have the fullest opportunity to contribute.

Following the end of the initial consultation period on 31 October 1997, there will be a period of further work and consultation after which the Government will prepare proposals for publication and further consultation in the first part of 1998.

Members of Parliament/House of Lords

  • All MPs
  • Spokesmen in the House of Lords

Pension Industry/Employer Representatives

  • Association of Pensioner Trustees
  • Association of Consulting Actuaries
  • Association of Unit Trusts and Investments
  • Association of Friendly Societies
  • Association of British Insurers
  • Association of Pension Lawyers
  • Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia
  • Association of Investment Trust Companies
  • Auditing Practices Board
  • Bank of England
  • British Insurance and Investment Brokers Association
  • Chartered Insurance Institute
  • Chartered Institute of Taxation
  • Confederation of British Industry
  • Corporation of Insurance and Financial Advisers
  • Engineering Employers Federation
  • Engineers and Managers Association
  • Faculty and Institute of Actuaries
  • Federation of Small Businesses
    • 741
  • Friendly Societies Commission
  • Independent Financial Advisors Association
  • Industry Wide Pension Schemes Group
  • Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
  • Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland
  • Institute of Management
  • Institute of Directors
  • Institutional Fund Managers Association
  • Insurance Brokers Registration Council
  • Investment Management Regulatory Organisation
  • Joint Working Group on Occupational Pensions
  • Law Society of Scotland
  • Law Society
  • Life Assurance Association
  • National Association of Pension Funds
  • Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority
  • Pensions Compensation Board
  • Pensions Ombudsman
  • Pensions Management Institute
  • Personal Investments Authority
  • Securities and Futures Association
  • Securities and Investment Board
  • Society of Financial Advisers
  • Society of Pension Consultants
  • SORP (Statement of Recommended Practice) Working Group
  • The Association of Corporate Trustees (TACT)
  • The Pensions Advisory Service

Commercial Organisations

  • Abbey National
  • Allied Dunbar
  • Barclays Bank plc
  • British Airways
  • Colonial Unity Trust Bank
  • Commercial Union
  • Eagle Star
  • Equitable Life
  • Godwins Ltd.
  • Halifax
  • Hartshead Pensikons
  • ICI
  • IFA Promotion
  • Legal and General
  • Lloyds Bank plc
  • M and G Group plc
  • Marks and Spencer
  • Midland Bank plc
  • Nat West Group
  • Nationwide Building Society
  • Nestle UK Ltd.
  • NPI
  • Pearl Assurance
  • Pension Store
  • PPP Lifetime Care plc
  • Pro-Share
  • Prudential
  • Rentokil Initial
  • Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance
  • Royal Bank of Scotland
  • J. Sainsbury
  • Save and Prosper
  • Scottish Widows
  • Scottish Amicable
  • Scottish Equitable
  • Scottish Life
  • Skandia Life
  • Standard Life
  • Storehouse plc
  • Sun Life
  • The Post Office
  • Virgin Management
  • Virgin Group Ltd.
  • Willis Corroon
  • Winterbourne Trustee Services Ltd.

Academic experts/Think Tanks/Individuals

  • Institute of Fiscal Studies
  • Policy Studies Institute
  • Social Market Foundation
  • Social Security Advisory Committee
  • Centre for Policy Studies
  • Politeia
  • Adam Smith Institute
  • Fawcett Society
  • Fabian Society
  • Institute for Public Policy Research
  • Professor Robert Walker, Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University
  • Social Policy Research Unit, York University
  • Pensions Institute, Birkbeck College, University of London
  • National Institute of Economic and Social Research
  • Lombard Street Research Ltd.
  • School of Social Sciences, University of Bath
  • Dr. Andrew Sentence, London Business School
  • Professor John Gray, Jesus College, Oxford
  • Professor George Yarrow, Hertford College, Oxford
  • Professor Tony Atkinson, Nuffield College, Oxford
  • Professor Roy Goode, St. John's College, Oxford
  • Dr. Corelli Barnett, Churchill College, Cambridge
  • Professor David Marsland, Brunel University College
  • Professor Townsend, Bristol University
  • Ruth Hancock, Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, Kings College, University of London
  • Citizen's Income Trust
  • Mr. Tony Lynes
  • Mr. George Taylor
  • Heather Joshi, Social Statistics Research Unit, City University
  • Sara Arber, Surrey University
  • Ceridwen Roberts, Family Policy Studies Unit
  • Sue Ward, Independent Pensions Research Group, Northern Pensions Research Group
  • Sir Michael Partridge
  • Martin Werth, Munich Reinsurance Company
  • Bryn Davies, Union Pension Services Ltd.
  • Carnegie UK Trust
  • Mr. Carroll, PAPRI
  • Mr. Brian Holden

Trades Unions

  • TUC
  • AEEU
  • CCSU
  • GMB
  • GPMU
  • MSF
  • NCU
  • NFU
  • NUT
  • PTC
  • RCN
  • TGWU
  • UNISON
  • USDAW

Pressure/Consumers Groups/Churches etc.

  • Abbeyfield Society
  • Age Concern
  • Age Concern Cymru
  • Association of Retired Persons over 50 (ARPO5O)
  • Campaign for Pension Fund Democracy
  • Care Forum Wales
  • Carers National Association
  • Consumers Association
  • COPAS (Confederation of Occupational Pensioners Association)
  • Disability Alliance
  • Disability Wales
  • Disability Income Group
  • Equal Opportunities Commission
  • Help the Aged
  • Joseph Rowntree Foundation
    • 743
  • NACAB
  • National Federation of Post Office and BT Pensioners
  • National Federation of Women's Institutes
  • National Federation of Consumers Groups
  • National Council of Women
  • National Consumer Council
  • Office of Fair Trading
  • PARITY (formerly Campaign for the Equalisation of State Pension Age)
  • Pensioners Voice
  • Pensioners Rights Campaign
  • Plain Language Commission
  • Plain English Campaign
  • Public Service Pensioners Council
  • Royal National Institute for the Blind
  • T and G Retired Members Association
  • VOICES (Voluntary Organisations involved in caring in the elderly sector)
  • Wales Council for Voluntary Action
  • Wales Assembly of Women
  • Wales Pensioners
  • Welsh Consumer Council
  • Women's National Commission
  • Church of England
  • Roman Catholic Church
  • The Chief Rabbi
  • Church of Scotland
  • The Church in Wales

Local Government Bodies

  • Audit Commission
  • Bradford City Council
  • CIPFA
  • Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
  • County and District Councils (England and Wales)
  • County and County Borough Councils in Wales
  • Environment Agency
  • LIBA
  • Local Government Association
  • London Borough Councils
  • London Pensions Fund Authority
  • MPO
  • Scottish Regional, District and City Councils
  • Society of County Treasurers
  • Society of Metropolitan Treasurers
  • South Yorkshire PTA
  • South Yorkshire Pensions Authority
  • South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council
  • Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
  • The Town Clerk, City of London
  • UKSC/LGMB
  • Welsh Local Government Association
  • Welsh Association of Health Authorities and Trusts
  • West Midlands PTA
  • Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
  • Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council

Other Government Departments/Bodies

  • No. 10 Policy Unit
  • DTI
  • HM Treasury
  • Department of Health
  • Inland Revenue
  • Scottish Office
  • Welsh Office
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • LCD
  • Environment
  • MOCOP—(public service pensions committee)
  • Government Actuary
  • Agricultural Wages Board
  • Office of Public Service: Better Regulation Unit Civil Service Pensions Division

Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if she will list the members of the pensions review team. [10217]

Mr. Denham

The pensions review team is led by me as the Minister with responsibilities for pensions, supported by a small group of officials. In keeping with our commitment to manage within current cash plans, the cost of the pensions review will be absorbed within the Department's existing running costs limit.

Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if copies of the papers prepared for the meetings convened by her between October 1996 and April 1997 to prepare for the pensions review have been supplied to the pensions review team; and if she will place copies of them in the Library. [10218]

Mr. Denham

I am making the papers prepared for the series of meetings held before 1 May available to officials in the Department's pensions review team. The wide-ranging review of pensions that we promised in the manifesto was announced by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on 17 July,Official Report, columns 239–41.

Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what the terms of reference are of the group of pensions experts who have been asked to report on the state of pension provision in the United Kingdom and future trends; which experts have been invited to be members; what their qualifications are; what remuneration they will receive; and which of them have expertise relating to state pensions. [10216]

Mr. Denham

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has appointed Tom Ross of Alexander Clay and vice-president of the National Association of Pension Funds to chair the group of pensions experts. We shall announce further details of the expert group, including the group's terms of reference and the names of the experts, soon.