FIREFIGHTER AND POLICE PENSIONS

Early day motion 768, tabled 4 February 2015 by John McDonnell (Labour). Signed by 136 members.

That this House notes that public service firefighters and police officers who retired in a period from 1998 to 2006 were significantly and knowingly disadvantaged by the failure by the Government Actuary's Department, the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Home Office to secure up-to-date actuarial valuations in respect of pension entitlements surrendered on retirement; further notes that maladministration in this matter was established in 2008; further notes that since then the Government Actuary's Department has acted in bad faith by adopting delaying tactics, including a dubious and failed legal challenge to the authority of the Pensions Ombudsman, thereby causing lengthy and unnecessary delay to the resolution of this matter and occasioning a situation whereby many of those affected have not or will not live sufficiently long to see this injustice corrected; and calls on the named departments to accept the imminent ruling by the Pensions Ombudsman and take immediate steps to pay any recommended awards.

Signatures by party: Labour 86, Liberal Democrat 21, Conservative 11, Scottish National Party 6, DUP 4, Independent 2, Plaid Cymru 2, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Green 1, Respect 1.