The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Danny Alexander)
Legislation governing public service pensions requires them to be increased annually by the same percentage as additional pensions—state earnings-related pension and state second pension. Public service pensions will therefore be increased from 6 April 2015 by 1.2%, in line with the annual increase in the consumer prices index up to September 2014, except for those public service pensions which have been in payment for less than a year, which will receive a pro-rata increase.
[HCWS271]