Scheme and Pension Consultations
We are currently running two consultations.
The first is the Consultation on changes to The Scheme of MPs' Staffing and Business Costs which sets out the rules, eligibility and budgets governing MPs’ business costs. The proposed changes concern the 2022-23 financial year.
We are keen to hear the views of MPs, their staff and our wider stakeholders on these changes and how best they should be implemented. Broadly speaking, the changes we are proposing to the Scheme fall into two categories:
efforts to make the Scheme more flexible, intuitive, and simple in line with our Corporate Plan, and
measures to update the Scheme in light of changing working patterns following the Covid-19 pandemic
We are also asking about the possible equality impacts of the changes proposed in this consultation.
Read the full consultation document. If agreed, changes would take effect from 1 April 2022.
To submit your response, please use our online survey.
You can also email consultation@theipsa.org.uk if you prefer. Please send all responses by 27 February 2022 and if you would like your response to be treated as confidential, please say so clearly in your response.
The second is the Consultation on MPs’ pensions: Responding to the McCloud judgment.
This follows an earlier consultation last year on the principle of whether changes should be made to the MPs’ pension scheme as a result of the McCloud court judgment, which identified age-related discrimination in some other public service schemes.
Although the judgment does not apply directly to it, the MPs’ pension scheme does contain similar provisions to those in other public service schemes which were the subject of the legal case.
On the basis of that earlier consultation, we concluded that it was right to proceed with the proposed changes, which are likely to include two key elements:
closure of the final salary section of the scheme, and
an "immediate" rather than "deferred" choice offered to impacted members about the benefits they accrue during a defined "relevant period"
Since then, we have worked on designing the detail of the policy solution, which would ultimately be translated into rule changes to the scheme.
Read the full consultation document.
To submit your response, please use our online survey.
You can also email consultation@theipsa.org.uk if you prefer. Please send responses by Friday 18 March 2022 and if you would like your response to be treated as confidential, please say so clearly in your response.