Issue - meetings

Ministerial Statement from Brandon Lewis, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government attached

Further to Minute No. 6 (2)(i) of the meeting held 14 October 2014 the Panel considered a Ministerial Statement, dated 11 March 2014, from Brandon Lewis MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government, on the Local Government Pension Scheme affecting local authority elected Members.  

The Statement indicated that a statutory consultation had been undertaken between April and July 2013 on the Government’s intention to abolish taxpayer-funded pensions for Councillors; and that the regulations had now been laid before Parliament to abolish such taxpayer-funded pensions for new Councillors in England and other elected office holders from 1 April 2014, and terminate access for existing Councillors at the end of their current fixed term of office (for example, from May 2014, in relation to Councillors with elections this year).

RESOLVED:

That the Regulations laid before Parliament to abolish taxpayer-funded pensions for Councillors be noted.