Andrew Stephenson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2016-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people found a lost pension scheme through the Pension Tracing Service in each of the last five years.

Justin Tomlinson

The Pension Tracing Service (PTS) located the following number of schemes:

2011/12 Successful Traces 69,143

2012/13 Successful Traces 93,975

2013/14 Successful Traces 125,502

2014/15 Successful Traces 107,834

2015/16 Successful Traces 133,702

These numbers represent the number of schemes PTS located for customers but PTS have no way of knowing how many customers went on to find a lost pension.