Collection

Personal pensions: contribution and tax relief statistics

HMRC statistics on contributions to personal pensions and the overall cost of private pension tax relief.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Published: 30 September 2021
• Last updated: 28 October 2021 — See all updates

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.

National Statistics

• Private pension statistics
  • 27 September 2023
  • National statistics

Other statistics information

• Quality report: Private pension statistics
  • 27 September 2023
  • National statistics

Published 30 September 2021
Last updated 28 October 2021 + show all updates

1. 28 October 2021

   Updated body of the text. Replaced old links with updated new ones.

2. 30 September 2021

   Added a link to the new page for Personal and stakeholder pensions statistics.

3. 30 September 2021

   First published.

4. 30 June 2021

   Added June 2021 release of Tables 7 and 8.

5. 4 October 2019

   Added the annexed tables 3,4, and 5 to the collection under a newly created National Statistics group.

6. 26 September 2019

   Changes to the description of statistics to include more information and a change in the links to represent the new structure of the tables that are published, which has been reflected in the body.

7. 30 April 2019

   Updates to Tables PEN1, PEN2, PEN2.1, PEN2.2, PEN3, PEN4, PEN5 and PEN6.

8. 28 September 2018

   Updated tables PEN3, PEN4 and PEN5 to include 2017 data. Added tables PEN7 and PEN8.

9. 29 September 2017

   Updates to Tables PEN3, PEN4 and PEN5.

10. 24 February 2017

    Updates to Tables PEN1, PEN2, PEN2.1, PEN2.2 and PEN6.

11. 26 February 2016

    Updates to Tables PEN1, PEN2, PEN2.1, PEN2.2 and PEN6.

12. 25 September 2015

    Updated tables PEN3, PEN4 and PEN5 for 2013-14.

13. 27 February 2015

    Tables updated for 2013-14

14. 26 September 2014

    Various tables updated for 2012-13

15. 28 February 2014

    Various tables updated to February 28th 2014.