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Mr. Booth
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the annual value of 6 per cent. of the civil service pay bill; and what is the total annual expenditure on civil service pensions.
Mr. Portillo
In 1992–93, 6 per cent. of the civil service pay bill—excluding the pay costs of civil servants working in trading funds and trading bodies, and MOD civilians working in non-support areas—amounted to £704 million. Pensions paid to retired civil servants in the same year totalled £1,720 million.