Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2017 to Question 59477, how differences in the age and gender profiles of members of the final salary pension scheme across the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority estate and public sector pension schemes have been accounted for in the equalities analysis referred to in that Answer.

High level analysis of the proposals on specific age profiles has been carried out and a full Equalities Analysis (EA) will be undertaken in order to comply in full with all of the requirements by the Public Sector Equality Duty, as set out in the Equality Act 2010. The EA will assess the equality impacts (including age and gender) of changes to two Nuclear Decommissioning Authority pension schemes which are in scope for public sector pension reform and will be taken into account by Government in finalising decisions. The EA will be published in due course.