Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of people in work who have a defined (a) benefit and (b) contribution pension scheme.

Latest ONS data, taken from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) relating to April 2015, shows the proportion of employees in work contributing to an occupational defined benefit scheme was reported to be 28.3%, largely unchanged since 2012. The proportion of employees in work contributing to either an occupational defined contribution, Group Personal or Group Stakeholder pension scheme was reported to be 34.3%, almost double the 17.2% reported in 2012.