Departmental Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of civil servants in her Department and its agencies are members of the (a) Classic, (b) Classic Plus, (c) Nuvos and (d) Premium civil service pension schemes. (240304)

The breakdown of members by PCPS scheme, and the proportion of members in each scheme is shown in the following table:

*Table 1*
	Home Office and UKBA	Proportion of members in scheme (percentage)	CRB	Proportion of members in scheme (percentage)	IPS	Proportion of members in scheme (percentage)
Total members	21,380	—	526	—	3918	—
Classic	11,553	54.03	324	61.60	2,154	54.98
Premium	8,340	39.01	136	25.85	1,411	36.01
Classic Plus	709	3.32	5	0.95	59	1.51
Nuvos	778	3.64	61	11.60	294	7.50

The figures reflect the position as at 30 September 2008 which are the latest data that are currently available.

Volume 485: debated on Monday 15 December 2008