Correspondence Apr. 23 2024
Committee: Economic Affairs CommitteeFound: productivity growth in the public sector by 0.5% – in areas excluding cash transfers (such as welfare and pensions
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: Defending BritainFound: Alongside our procurement reforms and building on the success of the NHS Long-term Plan, we will improve
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of decoupling the age at which an individual can claim their NHS Pension from the State Pension Age.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The NHS Pension Scheme is generous, and provides good pensions for retirement. A new reformed scheme was introduced in 2015, to ensure the costs are sustainable for the future. The reforms included linking scheme retirement age to an individual’s state pension age, in response to people living healthier, longer lives.
Individuals can claim their National Health Service pension earlier than their state pension age, although their benefits will be reduced in value, to account for the fact that they are being paid for longer. This reduction is waived when the scheme accepts a claim for early retirement on ill-health grounds. Where an NHS pension is claimed after state pension age, the reverse applies, and the value of benefits will be increased. The scheme also offers a partial retirement option, which allows staff to draw down all or part of their pension, and continue working in a more flexible way.
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: The Universal Credit (Administrative Earnings Threshold) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/****)Found: the Social Security Administration Act 1992 and statement by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: The Universal Credit (Administrative Earnings Threshold) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/****)Found: the Social Security Administration Act 1992 and statement by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: 2020 Valuation - Teachers’ Pension Scheme (England and Wales)Found: period, this is based on the scheme’s own experience combined with experience from other large schemes (NHS
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: I. List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II. List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III. Letter dated 19/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.Found: for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy.
Mentions:
1: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) It is about the link between care and the NHS. Carers do such a fantastic job. - Speech Link
2: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab - Lewisham, Deptford) Alongside our 10-year plan for change and modernisation of the NHS, Labour will deliver a long-term plan - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) , McDonald’s, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Greggs, 999, air traffic control and public bodies, including the NHS - Speech Link
2: None also companies that have regularly short-changed the public purs,; for example, by overcharging the NHS - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) We have also heard that it could be applied to a much wider range of benefits, including pensions. - Speech Link
4: None In order to find that out, my Amendment 234 would remove pensions from the scope of these powers. - Speech Link
5: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The figure for the fraud aspect—or it could be error—linked to state pensions is £100 million. - Speech Link
Found: to the Secretary of State’s duty to issue guidance on the collaboration of agencies (police, NHS