HC Deb 09 April 2003 vol 403 c274W
Mr. Heald

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the(a) funded and (b) unfunded public sector pension schemes for which her Department, its agencies and its non-departmental public bodies are responsible; when the last actuarial valuation was of each scheme; what the value was of the assets at the last actuarial valuation of each scheme; what deficit is disclosed by the last actuarial valuation of each scheme; and if she will make a statement. [104935]

Alun Michael

Staff in the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and its six agencies i.e. the Central Science Laboratory, the Veterinary Laboratories Agency, the Centre for Environmental Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, the Pesticides Safety Directorate, the Veterinary Medicines Directorate and the Rural Payments Agency are members of the unfunded Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme which is the responsibility of the Cabinet Office.

Information on the pension arrangements for the staff of the Department's non- departmental public bodies is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

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