Public Sector: Pensions

Danny Alexander
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Government Actuary's Department has completed reviews of or reports into the pension schemes in (a) the NHS, (b) the police force, (c) local government and (d) the Civil Service in the last five years.

Yvette Cooper
The Government Actuary has completed the following reports on actuarial valuations of the NHS pension schemes in the last five years:

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|NHS Pension Scheme in|Valuation date|Completion date|
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|England and Wales    |31 March 1999 |March 2003     |
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|Northern Ireland     |31 March 1999 |October 2004   |
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|Scotland             |31 March 1999 |November 2005  |
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|England and Wales    |31 March 2004 |December 2007  |
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In July 2004, the Government Actuary also completed a report on the actuarial valuation of the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme (Northern Ireland) as at 31 March 2003.

Assessments by the Government Actuary's Department of the liabilities of each of the NHS pension schemes and the Principal Civil Service Pensions Scheme (Northern Ireland) are published annually within the schemes' resource accounts; the last such assessments completed were as at 31 March 2007.

During the last five years the Government Actuary has not completed any actuarial reviews of pension schemes for the police force or local government.