§ Mrs. MayTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will set out the rescheduled increase in employers' contributions for teachers' pensions in the next and future financial years, the actuarial basis of the calculation and the impact on the budget of each local education authority. [105100]
§ Mr. Wicks[holding answer 17 January 2000]: The employer contribution rate for members of the teachers' pension scheme is currently 7.2 per cent. The rate from 1 April 2000 will be 7.4 per cent; from 1 April 2002 the rate will be 8.35 per cent.
The increase from 1 April 2000 is to fund improvements to scheme benefits which will be introduced from that date. The increase from 1 April 2002 is to eliminate the balance of liabilities identified by the Government Actuary's valuation of the scheme as at 31 March 1996. I shall shortly be laying before the House the Government Actuary's report on the valuation of the scheme.
Rescheduling the planned increase will reduce pressures on Local Education Authority budgets by £90 million in 2000–01 and 2001–02. The reduced pressure for each Local Education Authority is as follows:
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Local education authority £000 City of London 4 Camden 386 Greenwich 554 Hackney 455 Hammersmith 283 Islington 407 Kensington and Chelsea 182 Lambeth 490 Lewisham 565 Southwark 546 Tower Hamlets 631 Wandsworth 427 Westminster 297 Barking 375 Barnet 599 Bexley 471 Brent 542 Bromley 560 Croydon 628 Ealing 573 Enfield 616 Haringey 494 Harrow 361 Havering 437 Hillingdon 484 Hounslow 473 Kingston upon Thames 235 Merton 287 Newham 702 Redbridge 528 Richmond upon Thames 228 Sutton 352 Waltham Forest 488 Birmingham 2,213 Coventry 595 Dudley 526 Sandwell 590 Solihull 387 Walsall 546 Wolverhampton 490 Knowsley 373 Liverpool 1,041 390W
Local education authority £000 St. Helens 337 Sefton 537 Wirral 652 Bolton 516 Bury 316 Manchester 906 Oldham 473 Rochdale 429 Salford 414 Stockport 461 Tameside 421 Trafford 401 Wigan 547 Barnsley 383 Doncaster 594 Rotherham 507 Sheffield 859 Bradford 1,023 Calderdale 390 Kirklees 723 Leeds 1,285 Wakefield 568 Gateshead 345 Newcastle upon Tyne 480 North Tyneside 341 South Tyneside 301 Sunderland 558 Isles of Scilly 5 Bath and North East Somerset 274 City of Bristol 589 North Somerset 297 South Gloucestershire 414 Hartlepool 189 Middlesbrough 297 Redcar and Cleveland 287 Stockton-on-Tees 360 Kingston-upon-Hull 506 East Riding of Yorkshire 540 North East Lincolnshire 324 North Lincolnshire 284 North Yorkshire 973 York 266 Bedfordshire 712 Luton 385 Buckinghamshire 855 Milton Keynes 407 Derbyshire 1,207 Derby 428 Dorset 603 Poole 217 Bournemouth 245 Durham 889 Darlington 176 East Sussex 776 Brighton and Hove 370 Hampshire 1,973 Portsmouth 325 Southampton 383 Leicestershire 1,010 Leicester 584 Rutland 51 Staffordshire 1,411 Stoke-on-Trent 440 Wiltshire 705 Swindon 324 Bracknell Forest 181 Windsor and Maidenhead 226 West Berkshire 271 Reading 211 Slough 261 Wokingham 257 Cambridgeshire 843
Local education authority £000 Peterborough 348 Cheshire 1,156 Halton 258 Warrington 345 Devon 1,077 Plymouth 476 Torbay 220 Essex 2,326 Southend-on-Sea 307 Thurrock 268 Herefordshire 271 Worcestershire 874 Kent 2,465 Medway Towns 527 Lancashire 2,064 Blackburn with Darwen 309 Blackpool 239 Nottinghamshire 1,305 Nottingham City 506 Shropshire 441 The Wrekin 293 Cornwall 836 Cumbria 862 Gloucestershire 947 Hertfordshire 1,975 Isle of Wight 240 Lincolnshire 1,113 Norfolk 1,273 Northamptonshire 1,135 Northumberland 565 Oxfordshire 962 Somerset 780 Suffolk 1,109 Surrey 1,589 Warwickshire 824 West Sussex 1,195