To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects to announce the Government’s total accrued liability in relation to public service pension schemes as at March 2006. (147364)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimates he has made of the reduction in the accrued liability for public service pensions if mandatory retirement ages were abolished. (148707)

I refer the hon. Gentlemen to the answer the former Chief Secretary (Mr. Stephen Timms) gave on 25 June 2007, Official Report, column 393W.

A new estimate will be published in the autumn.