Local Government Pension Scheme

(asked on 24th July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to section 5.1 of the consultation Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS): Changes to the local valuation cycle and the management of employer risk, what assessment he has made of the potential economic effect on non-teaching staff of joining pension schemes other than the LGPS.


Answered by
Luke Hall Portrait
Luke Hall
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 4th September 2019

This consultation closed on 31 July and my officials are now considering the responses received. The proposal was to grant further education corporations, sixth form college corporations and higher education corporations in England the flexibility to decide whether to offer the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) to all or some eligible new employees. These are independent, autonomous institutions and any alternative pension arrangements which they may offer would be determined by them through the appropriate industrial relations machinery.

The Department is considering responses to the consultation and a response will be published in due course.

My Department does not collect the demographic and income data requested. However the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) does gather data on higher education staff - https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff - and data on the further education workforce is available through the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) - https://www.et-foundation.co.uk/research/workforce-data/ . Further detailed information, for further education college staff only, is available from the results of the College Staff Survey published last year: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/college-staff-survey-2018.

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