§ Mr. WillettsTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 21 April 2004,Official Report, column 293, how many people whose pension schemes have been wound up have found that the money that they invested yielded nothing. [169646]
§ Malcolm WicksInformation is not available on the number of people whose pension schemes have wound up with no, or insufficient, funds to meet their expected pensions. We are currently exploring with pension scheme trustees and other industry representatives the basis on which we can establish firm estimates of the extent of the problem of defined benefit schemes winding-up under funded, the numbers affected and the potential scale of losses