Pension Protection Fund

 

 

• The aggregate funding position (total assets minus total liabilities) of almost 7,400 DB funds is estimated to have worsened over the month to a deficit of £2.2 billion at end-April 2010, from a surplus of £0.3 billion at end-March 2010 (Chart 1 and Table 1). Scheme funding is better than it was a year previously (there was a deficit of £188.5 billion in April 2009).

 

• The total deficit of schemes in deficit in April 2010 is estimated to have worsened to £74.4 billion from £73.3 billion at the end of March 2010 (Chart 3 and Chart 4). In April 2009, the aggregate deficit of all schemes in deficit stood at £204.8 billion.

 

• In April 2010, the total surpluses of schemes in surplus decreased to £72.3 billion from £73.6 billion at the end of March 2010 (Chart 6). In April 2009, the total surplus of all schemes in surplus stood at £16.4 billion.