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Cuts to the Office for National Statistics budget could place private pension statistical research under threat, an analyst warns.

Falls in liabilities relating to the shift from RPI to CPI for scheme indexation will shrink dramatically after the Office for National Statistics said it would include housing costs in the measure, industry experts say.

Active membership in private sector defined benefit schemes declined by 200,000 to 2.4 million in 2009 but remained constant in the public sector, official statistics show.

Almost two-thirds of single female pensioners receive less than £5,000 a year in private pension payments, statistics show.