To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many and what percentage of staff in his Department were making additional voluntary contributions to their pensions in each of the last two years. (193558)

In the Cabinet Office, 138 members of staff (9 per cent. of the total number of staff on the Cabinet Office payroll) were making additional voluntary pension contributions through deductions from their pay in February 2007. This has increased to 176 members of staff (13 per cent. of the total number of staff on the Cabinet Office payroll) who were making additional voluntary pension contributions through deductions from their pay in February 2008.