Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor John McDonnell (Labour), on Wednesday, 4 February 2015, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 136 members in total.

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FIREFIGHTER AND POLICE PENSIONS

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.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

768 

Session

2014-15

Other sponsors

Peter Bottomley

Dennis Skinner

Kelvin Hopkins

Andrew George

Jim Shannon

Subjects

Fire and rescue services Police Workplace pensions

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk