To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will place in the Library the figures which form the basis of the charts in the two pensions White Papers published in 2006 which are on his Department’s website. (141547)

The figures which form the basis of the charts in the two pensions White Papers have been placed in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will update and expand chart 3.11 of the Purple Book using information from additional scheme returns since it was published. (143548)

This is not a matter for the Secretary of State.

The Purple Book, published in December 2006, was a joint study by the Pensions Regulator and the Pension Protection Fund (PPF). The statistics were generated through analysis of information collected by the Pensions Regulator from pension scheme returns. Some of this information was further processed by the PPF in collaboration with the Government Actuaries' Department so that valuation information was as at a common date.

This will be an annual publication.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his latest estimates are of the number of individuals in contracted out (a) defined benefit and (b) defined contribution pension schemes for each year from 1996-97 to 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. (144079)

The information is in the following table.