Written Question·Treasury·UIN 27077

Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions

Tabled: 28 January 2025
Answered: 5 February 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of civil service pensions for the next 50 years.

Answer

Darren Jones
The Treasury’s central affordability measure for public service pensions is the projected pension benefit payments as a percentage of estimated GDP. This reflects the fact that most public service pension schemes are unfunded and financed through taxation...
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