Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people are members of the Local Government Pension Scheme in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) Yorkshire and Humber.

In the Yorkshire and Humber area, the Local Government Pension Scheme is split into four funds - the North Yorkshire Pension Fund (administered by North Yorkshire County Council), the West Yorkshire Pension Fund (administered by the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council), the East Riding Pension Fund (administered by East Riding of Yorkshire Council) and the South Yorkshire Pension Fund (administered by the South Yorkshire Pensions Authority). According to data submitted to the Department for the 2017/18 scheme year, membership records for each are as follows:

North Yorkshire Pension fund

Active members (those in employment actively contributing to the scheme) – 31,194

Pensioner members (those members receiving a pension from the scheme) – 20,476

Deferred members (those members who are no longer active but are not yet receiving a pension) – 35,813

Total membership – 87,483

West Yorkshire Pension Fund

Active members – 101,794

Pensioner members – 84,833

Deferred members – 97,583

Total membership – 284,210

East Riding Pension Fund

Active members – 40,051

Pensioner members – 29,650

Deferred members – 43,228

Total membership – 112,929

South Yorkshire Pension Fund

Active members - 52,412

Pensioner members - 51,041

Deferred members - 53, 428

Total membership – 156,881

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) is a participating employer in the South Yorkshire Pension Fund and its membership numbers will be included in the above figures. However, pension fund data submitted to the Department is not broken down by individual participating employers and we therefore do not hold membership data for Barnsley MBC itself.