National Statistics

Personal and stakeholder pensions statistics

HMRC statistics on contributions to personal pensions, the cost of pension tax relief, Annual Allowance, Lifetime Allowance and Flexible payments from pensions.

Documents

Tables 1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4

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Table 6

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Tables 7 and 8

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Table 9

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Details

These statistics provide:

  • the value of contributions to non-occupational personal pensions
  • tax relief estimates for employer and individual contributions to personal and occupational non-state registered pension schemes
  • statistics on Annual Allowance and Lifetime Allowance charges
  • statistics on Flexible payments from pensions

Headlines and commentary are available in the main publication document. Methodology is explained in the background and methodology document.

Some previous updates to these statistics can now be found on the National Archives website.

Published 30 September 2021