Pension Protection Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in (a) the UK and (b) Tamworth constituency have claimed pension payments from the Pension Protection Fund in each year since its inception. (282740)

Information relating to the Tamworth constituency could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Such information as is available is as follows:

*The cumulative number of people in the UK whose pension scheme transferred into the Pension Protection Fund*
Year ending 31 March	People receiving compensation	People due to receive compensation on retirement
2006	Nil	Nil
2007	1,457	5,621
2008	3,596	8,577
2009	12,778	17,737

Volume 495: debated on Wednesday 1 July 2009