HC Deb 18 March 1999 vol 327 c799W
Mr. Webb

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the special analyses, including unpublished tabulations, of the Family Resources Survey which were undertaken by his Department for the Pension Provision Group. [76098]

Mr. Timms

[pursuant to his reply, 15 March 1999, c. 481]The following analyses of the 1995–96 Family Resources Survey were undertaken for the Pension Provision Group:

  • Tabulation of the incomes of single pensioners.
  • Tabulation of the average incomes of pensioner units by source and by marital status and gender.
  • Tabulation of the average incomes of pensioner units by source and by marital status and age under/over 75.
  • Estimation of the number of benefit units becoming entitled to means-tested benefits were upper capital limits to be removed and tariff income calculated for all capital above the lower capital limit.
  • Estimations of the numbers of people below State pension age in paid employment in the UK who are currently contributing to SERPS and occupational pension schemes and who have ever contributed to a personal pension scheme, by gender and full-time or part-time employment status.

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