Question follow-through · 999

AEA Group: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has considered requesting that the Government Actuary’s Department publish the calculations behind the sum transferred to the AEAT pension scheme at the time of privatisation.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
13 May 2026
Target answer date
18 May 2026
Answer
21 May 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 13 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has considered requesting that the Government Actuary’s Department publish the calculations behind the sum transferred to the AEAT pension scheme at the time of privatisation.

  2. 18 May 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 May 2026

    Answer published

    The Department for Work and Pensions was not involved in the privatisation of Atomic Energy Authority Technology in 1996.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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