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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent estimates he has made of the variations in the performance of local government pension schemes for the beneficiaries of such schemes.

Local government pension scheme benefits are guaranteed by statute and are not directly affected by the performance of individual funds within the scheme.

The most recent data on the income and expenditure of individual funds, including investment income and investment management expenses, are at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-government-pension-scheme-funds-for-england-2015-to-2016