Civil Servants: Pensions
Cabinet Office
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West, Labour)
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what proportion of active members of the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme earning less than £15,000 per year (a) are female and (b) work part-time.
Francis Maude (Minister for the Cabinet Office; Horsham, Conservative)
holding answer
There are 57,904 female active members of the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme (PCSPS), earning less than £15,000 per year, and of those 53,833 work part-time. Membership numbers of the PCSPS and a breakdown between active, deferred and pensioner members can be found in Cabinet Office Civil Superannuation Resource Accounts 2009-10, copies of which are in the Library.