Written Statement·Commons·HM Treasury·HCWS96

Closure of the Equitable Life Payment Scheme

13 July 2015

Dame Harriett Baldwin

The Economic Secretary to the Treasury

Conservative

Statement

The Equitable Life Payment Scheme has issued payments of over £1.06bn to 902,000 policyholders as of 31 May 2015. With final tracing efforts now concluding, the Scheme is reaching the limit of how many policyholders it will be able to trace and pay. As an...