Consultation outcome

Local government pension scheme: technical amendments to benefits

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
• Published: 4 October 2018
• Last updated: 18 December 2018 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Applies to England and Wales

This consultation has concluded

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Local government pension scheme: technical amendments to benefits - government response

Ref: ISBN 978-1-4098-5395-4

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Detail of outcome

This document summarises the responses received to the consultation and sets out how the government plans to take forward each of the matters covered in the consultation.

The local government pension scheme is a statutory scheme established under the Public Sector Pensions Act 2013. Its rules and benefits are set out in regulations. Recently there have been a number of legal challenges to those regulations on grounds that they were not consistent with the human rights of those affected by them.

The consultation proposed some changes to the scheme to accommodate judgements already made and to give some flexibility to respond to potential future developments. We also took this opportunity to make a technical amendment to an earlier Scheme which is required to ensure that it functions as intended and in line with existing government policy. Responses were carefully taken on board and improved the final regulations.

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Original consultation

Summary

We are consulting on amendments to the local government pension scheme which are necessary to respond to recent legal judgements and meet existing policy objectives.

This consultation ran from
4 October 2018 to 11:45pm on 29 November 2018

Consultation description

The local government pension scheme is a statutory scheme established under the Public Sector Pensions Act 2013. Its rules and benefits are set out in regulations. Recently there have been a number of legal challenges to those regulations on grounds that they are not consistent with the human rights of those affected by them.

The purpose of this consultation is to propose some changes to the scheme to accommodate judgements already made and to give some flexibility to respond to potential future developments. We are also taking this opportunity to make a technical amendment to an earlier Scheme which is required to ensure that it functions as intended and in line with existing government policy.

Documents

Local government pension scheme: technical amendments to benefits

Ref: ISBN 978-1-4098-5331-2

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Published 4 October 2018
Last updated 18 December 2018 + show all updates

1. 18 December 2018

   Added government response to the consultation on technical amendments to the local government pension scheme.

2. 4 October 2018

   First published.