Department of Health and Social Security: Norman Fowler Inquiry into Provision for...

Records of the Inquiry into Provision for Retirement, chaired by Norman Fowler, Secretary of State for Social Services.

Department for Health and Social Security: Social Security Policy Group Supplementary Benefits: Housing and related benefits: Registered Files BN 109

Department of Health and Social Security: Social Security Policy Group, Division B, Central Review Unit (CRU file series) BN 133

Records of Norman Fowler, Secretary of State for Social Services, Department of Health and Social Security, 1981-1987

Department of Health and Social Security: Social Security Policy Group Division L: Tax Credit Policy: Registered Files (TAX Series) BN 114

In 2012-2013 Department for Work and Pensions

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Pay and pensions

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).