My Department has arrangements in place to assist with the tracing of pension schemes members. The pension provider must have made an unsuccessful attempt to contact the scheme member and my Department will only forward correspondence to the last known address of the member, based on its records, and only if this address differs from that held by the pension scheme provider.
No personal data is provided to the pension scheme providers by my Department in this process.
According to Departmental figures available, this service has been used as follows for the years 2016 to date:
2016 - 3,635
2017 - 3,528
2018- 3,384
2019 - 2,679
Unfortunately, I am advised that only estimated figures for the years preceding 2016 are available which can be furnished to the Deputy if he wishes to have them.
The Department does not hold information on individuals' private pension entitlements and therefore the host mailing service cannot help individuals trace unclaimed pensions. If a person believes that they may have an unclaimed pension entitlement they should contact their former employers and/or pension scheme providers.
I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.