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House of Commons

Thursday 22 November 2012

Public Bill Committee Proceedings

Public Service Pensions Bill

[Ninth and Tenth Sittings]

Sajid Javid

Agreed to  42

Schedule  11,  page  54,  line  30,  at end insert—

‘Lord Chancellor’s salary

2A  (1)
The Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 is amended as follows.

      (2)
In section 1 (salaries), in subsection (2), for the words from “at such rate” to

the end there is substituted “of—

(a)
£68,827, where the Lord Chancellor is a member of the House

of Commons;

(b)
otherwise, £101,038.”

      (3)
In that section, after subsection (5) there is inserted—

“(6)
Where a person who holds office as Lord Chancellor (and to whom a

salary is accordingly payable under subsection (2)) is also the holder

of one or more other offices in respect of which a salary is payable

under this section, he shall only be entitled to one of those salaries.

(7)
If, in the case of a person mentioned in subsection (6), there is a

difference between the salaries payable in respect of the offices held

by him, the office in respect of which a salary is payable to him shall

be that in respect of which the highest salary is payable.”

      (4)
In section 1A (alteration of salaries), in subsection (1), after “section 1(1),”

insert “(2)(a) or (b),”.’.

Sajid Javid

Agreed to  43

Schedule  11,  page  55,  line  10,  leave out ‘Section 1’ and insert ‘Sections 1 and

3(1)’.

Schedule, as amended, Agreed to.

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Public Service Pensions Bill, continued

Sajid Javid

Agreed to  21

Clause  31,  page  15,  line  32,  leave out ‘the state pension age link’ and insert ‘such

provision’.

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

Sajid Javid

Agreed to  22

Clause  32,  page  16,  line  24,  leave out ‘the state pension age link’ and insert ‘such

provision’.

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

New Clauses

Scheme participation

Chris Leslie

Cathy Jamieson

Negatived on division  NC1

To move the following Clause:—

‘The Treasury shall commission an independent review into the appropriateness

of increased pension contributions if, following the full implementation of the

increases in employee contributions announced in the Government’s 2010

Spending Review, the number of members opting out of any public service

pension scheme increases by more than 5 per cent compared with the drop-out

rate in the 12 months immediately before any contribution increases were

implemented.’.

Pension policy groups

Chris Leslie

Cathy Jamieson

Withdrawn  NC2

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
The Treasury shall make directions providing for the establishment of a pension

policy group for each scheme established under section 1.

(2)
The pension policy groups will consider and advise on proposals to make

significant changes to scheme regulations.

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(3)
Treasury directions under subsection (1) shall establish a single pension policy

group relating to all schemes for local government workers.’.

Review of standards of administration

Chris Leslie

Cathy Jamieson

Not moved  NC3

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
Within six months of the day on which this Act is passed, the Treasury shall

commission an independent review into the standards of administration in public

service pension schemes and how those standards could be improved.

(2)
The Treasury shall lay before Parliament the report produced by the review as

soon as reasonably practical after the report has been published.’.

Member communications

Chris Leslie

Cathy Jamieson

Withdrawn  NC4

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
Scheme regulations for a scheme under section 1 shall provide for the provision

of annual benefit statements to all members of the scheme.

(2)
Benefit statements under subsection 1 shall show the following information—

(a)
the members’ pension benefits earned to date;

(b)
the projected annual pension and lump sum payments if the member

retires at his normal pension age; and

(c)
the member’s and employer’s current contribution rates.’.

Fair deal

Chris Leslie

Cathy Jamieson

Negatived on division  NC6

To move the following Clause:—

‘A member of a public service pension scheme is entitled to remain an active

member of that scheme following—

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(a)
the compulsory transfer of his contract of employment to a private

contractor under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of

Employment) Regulations 2006; and

(b)
any subsequent compulsory transfer of his contract of employment.’.

Maximum annual public pension

Richard Fuller

Not moved  NC7

To move the following Clause:—

‘Employer contribution to any individual pension will cease when that pension

accrued an actuarial value equivalent to an annual pension upon retirement age

equivalent to two times national gross average earnings as derived from the

Office for National Statistics.’.

Sajid Javid

Agreed to  23

Clause  33,  page  17,  line  31,  at end insert ‘or injury and compensation benefits’.

Sajid Javid

Agreed to  24

Clause  33,  page  18,  line  7,  at end insert—

““injury or compensation scheme”: a pension scheme is an “injury or

compensation scheme” if it provides only for injury or compensation

benefits (or both).”.

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

Clauses 34 to 38 Agreed to.

Bill, as amended, to be reported.



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