To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the estimated cost to employers of the Local Government Pension Scheme was in each financial year from 1996-97 to 2007-08, in actual terms and excluding the 20 per cent. of costs which relate to non-local authority employers. (104089)

Details of Local Government Pension Scheme employers' costs for the period 1996-97 to 2005-06 are available at http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/stats/index.htm, from which it is possible to determine the 80 per cent.:20 per cent. split between local authority and non-local authority employers' liabilities.

For the two years 2006-07 and 2007-08, I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove), on 9 October 2006, Official Report, column 400W.