Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people had their trivial commutation of their occupational pension request granted since the announcement of recent changes to pension regulations; and how many such requests have been refused due to the value of a pension exceeding £30,000.

Trivial commutation allows individuals with modest pension savings in defined benefit schemes to take them as a lump sum.

We do not collect information on trivial commutation requests as these requests are not made to HM Revenue and Customs.