Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average monthly pension payment is to civil service pensioners.

The average lump sum paid to Civil Service pensioners is £39,732.04, and the average net monthly pension payment is £742.23. Information regarding the average length of time from the date of retirement to the first payment is not currently available through management information reporting; producing this figure would require significant development work to create and validate the necessary reporting capability.

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