Catalogue description Department of Health and Social Security: Norman Fowler Inquiry into Provision for Retirement: Registered Files (NPR series)

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Title: Department of Health and Social Security: Norman Fowler Inquiry into Provision for Retirement: Registered Files (NPR series)
Description:

Records of the Inquiry into Provision for Retirement, chaired by Norman Fowler, Secretary of State for Social Services.
Date: 1983-1985
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Records of Norman Fowler, Secretary of State for Social Services, Department of Health and Social Security, 1981-1987 Subseries within BN 13
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: NPR
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 39 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 2012-2013 Department for Work and Pensions
Custodial history: The Department for Work and Pensions became custodians of the series in 2001 when it replaced the Department of Social Security, 1988-2001. The series was previously held by the Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988.
Accumulation dates: 1984-1994
Selection and destruction information: This series meets TNA's Acquisition Policy theme 2.2.1.5 Formulation and delivery of social policies, documenting the work of the Social Security Policy Group, Division C. The files have been selected in line with OSP5 5.2.3 - they contain the work of the Norman Fowler Social Security Policy Reviews, particularly the Inquiry into Provision for Retirement.
Accruals: No further accruals are expected.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Inquiry into Provision for Retirement, also known as the Norman Fowler Inquiry, was established on 23 November 1983 by the Secretary of State for Social Services to review occupational and private pensions. The investigations were divided into separate parts.

The Inquiry's terms of reference included the following:

  • To study the future development, adequacy and costs of State, occupational and private provision for retirement in the United Kingdom, including the portability of pension rights, and;
  • To consider possible changes in those arrangements, taking account of the recommendations of the select committee on social services in their report on retirement age.
The Minister responsible for social security, Norman Fowler MP, chaired the Inquiry, as well as a sub-group of the Inquiry set up to examine personal pensions and their operation. Written evidence was taken, and the Inquiry held four public hearings.

Consultative documents were published (date of publication in brackets):

  • On protecting the pension rights and expectations of early leavers (29/11/1983);
  • On greater disclosure of information by schemes to give more security for the rights and expectations of their members (29/02/1984);
  • Proposing a statutory right to a transfer value for early leavers from occupational schemes (23/05/1984).

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