Public Sector Index-Linked Pensions

Lord HARRIS of HIGH CROSS
asked Her Majesty's Government:What numbers and categories of employees in central and local government and in public agencies are: (

a) currently drawing indexed pensions, and ( b) entitled to indexed pensions on retirement.

The LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL (Lord Soames)
The following table sets out the approximate numbers of (a) pensions in payment to former employees and their dependants and  (b) serving members of the main public service superannuation schemes.-------------------------------
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|Armed Forces                 |
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|Civil and Diplomatic Services|
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|NHS                          |
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|Local Government             |
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|Teachers                     |
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|Police and Fire              |
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|Overseas                     |
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|Total                        |
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I regret that corresponding details for the nationalised industry pension schemes  are not available centrally. In 1979, however, 5.6 million employees in all belonged to public service and public sector pension schemes together (of which the nationalised industries were a part), and 2.4 million were drawing pensions. Of the latter 1.9 million were retired employees and 0.5 million dependants. Most of these pensioners would have been receiving fully inflation-proofed pensions.House adjourned at eleven minutes before eight o'clock.