HC Deb 27 June 2002 vol 387 c1058W
Mr. Webb

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his answer of 22 May 2002,Official Report, column 378W, on pensions, if he will update his estimates based on the Family Resources Survey 2000–01 of (a) median pensioner incomes, excluding means-tested benefits, by (i) age, (ii) sex and (iii) marital status, and (b) the size of each group. [62693]

Mr. McCartney

The information required is in the table.

concern is to ensure that as much money goes into the pension pot as possible, and is not spent on the cost of selling or running the pension fund.

Over a whole working life, if contributions to a defined benefit scheme were the same as those to a defined contribution scheme we would expect the pension benefits to be broadly comparable.

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