The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is presented in the following table:
Percentage of firms with any pension provision 1998 34 2000 29 2003 52 2005 44 Notes: 1. All figures are estimates taken from the Employers’ Pension Provision Survey. 2005 is the latest year published. The coverage of the survey is private sector employers in Great Britain. 2. Stakeholder pensions were introduced in April 2001, and from October 2001 employers with five or more employees and no other pension provision were required to provide access to stakeholder pensions. This is reflected in the increase in employer pension provision between 2000 and 2003. 3. Pension provision includes occupational schemes, group personal pensions, stakeholder pensions (including schemes with no members and/or no contributions) and firms that contribute to personal pensions. Source: DWP Employers’ Pension Provision Survey
The information requested is not available. The closest information available is the average occupational pension received by pensioner benefit units, as recorded in the Department’s Family Resources Survey and shown in the following table. Latest information relates to 2005-06, so average amounts are shown in 2005-06 prices.
£ per week, 2005-06 prices Pensioner couples Single pensioners All pensioner units 1997-98 154 80 118 1998-99 161 83 122 1999-2000 163 86 124 2000-01 178 89 134 2001-02 182 88 137 2002-03 178 93 137 2003-04 193 93 144 2004-05 196 99 150 2005-06 192 99 146 Notes: 1. Occupational pensions include widow’s employee pensions and occupational pension from an overseas Government or company if paid in sterling. The average amount received by a pensioner benefit unit may include pensions paid from more than one occupational pension scheme. 2. Figures are for Great Britain. 3. Figures have been rounded to the nearest £. 4. Based on survey data and as such subject to a degree of sampling and non sampling error. Users should not read too much into movements in data between single years. 5. Pensioner units are either pensioner couples or single pensioners. 6. Pensioner couples are couples where one or more of the adults are state pension age or over. Source: Pensioners’ Income Series, 2005-06 (Revised)