§ Mr. SayeedTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many United Kingdom citizens(a) own personal pensions and (b) are members of occupational pension schemes, broken down according to (i) sex, (ii) age groups 21 to 30, 31 to 40, 41 to 50 and 51 to 60 years, (iii) marital status, (iv) employment in the categories (1) working full-time, (2) part-time, (3) housewife, (4) unemployed, (v) number of dependent children aged 0 to 4, 5 to 10 and 11 to 16 years and (6) socio-economic group; and what estimates she has made of how these figures will change in the future. [27317]
§ Mr. DenhamThe information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is set out in the table.
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millions Occupational pension Personal pension (i) Men 5.8 4.5 Women 4.3 2.3 (ii) 21 to 30 2.0 1.5 31 to 40 3.1 2.0 41 to 50 3.0 1.8 51 to 60 1.7 1.1
millions Occupational pension Personal pension (iii) Married or cohabiting 7.8 5.3 Not married or cohabiting 2.3 1.4 (iv) Full-time employees 8.9 4.0 Part-time employees 1.2 0.6 Homemakers n/a 0.1 Unemployed n/a 1— (v) At least one child aged between 0and4 1.6 1.2 Children all aged between 5 and 15 2.3 1.4 (vi) Professional/managerial 3.2 2.3 Other non-manual 4.4 2.0 Skilled manual 1.6 1.1 Semi-skilled manual 1.0 0.5 Unskilled manual 0.2 0.2 1Represents less than 0.1 million. Notes:
1. All figures have been rounded to the nearest 0.1 million.
2. The figures are based on information from the 1995 General Household Survey (GHS). The 1995 survey is the latest for which data is available.
3. All figures refer to Great Britain.
4. The figures refer to people who belong to their present employer's occupational pension scheme, or who currently have a personal pension.
5. Proportions estimated from the 1995 GHS have been applied to Office of National Statistics (ONS) total population estimates for mid-year in 1995 in order to give an indication of the likely number of people in each category. In doing this, it is assumed that the respondents are representative of the overall population of Great Britain. The figures may not be representative in all aspects and so should be treated with caution.
6. The General Household Survey does not include citizens currently living in institutions such as prisons, hospitals and university halls of residence.
7. Data is only available for both male and female homemakers combined rather than just housewives.
8. The data for full-time and part-time workers who have accrued personal pension benefit entitlements excludes self-employed people.
9. Data giving the number of dependent children in the 0 to 4, 5 to 10 and 11 to 16 age groups that respondents had was not available. Figures are shown by whether the respondents had at least one child aged between 0 and 4 or all their children aged between 5 and 15.
10. No estimates have been made of how these figures will change in the future.