Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the impact of recent rises in the cost of living on people receiving a pension whose pensionable service before April 1997 is not linked to inflation due to the terms of the Pension Protection Fund.
The information required to carry out such an assessment is not readily available and to obtain it would incur disproportionate costs.