Government Actuary's Department

Government Actuary's Department

The Government Actuary’s Department (GAD) is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for providing actuarial advice to public sector clients. It describes itself as providing "Actuarial analysis - For the public sector - From the public sector".

The services GAD provides are:

• Actuarial valuations and advice for public sector pension schemes;
• Advice to the Government on occupational pension schemes and on private pensions policy;
• Advice on the pension aspects of staff transfers from the public sector;
• Advice to the UK government and overseas organisations on their social security arrangements and actuarial reviews of the National Insurance fund;
• Advice on investment-related issues including investment risk management strategies, and on project and enterprise risk; and
• Other actuarial and statistical advice on areas, including statistical analysis, healthcare financing and actuarial training.