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Public Service Pensions

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

537 c1201-17 

Session

2010-12

Department

Treasury

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Public Service Pensions
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Written statements
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Danny Alexander | 537 c1217 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for that comment. Over the last few months, I have sometimes fe...

Peter Bone | 537 c1217 (Link to this contribution) This excellent deputy Chancellor is very self-effacing, but he has achieved a considerable feat in b...

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Danny Alexander | 537 c1216 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to use the word ““veto”” at the Dispatch Box, even in answer to the hon. Lady's tempting ...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 537 c1216 (Link to this contribution) Will the Government take steps to veto any agreements that may be made between the trade unions and ...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1216 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has described the position precisely. Over the next 20 or 30 years, the agreement...

Philip Hollobone | 537 c1216 (Link to this contribution) Most of my constituents will never have access to a public sector pension, and if they have any priv...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1216 (Link to this contribution) Members of trade unions do indeed have that right, and it will be for the unions to decide their ind...

Ian Lavery | 537 c1216 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman said that agreement had largely been reached in the negotiations, and that ...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1216 (Link to this contribution) That is an extremely good point. Under the earlier cap and share arrangement, there would have been ...

Nigel Mills | 537 c1215 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Chief Secretary on reaching an agreement. The last thing that any of us want is a...

Russell Brown | 537 c1217 (Link to this contribution) I hope the Chief Secretary is beginning to realise that the very thing that is likely to destabilise...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1217 (Link to this contribution) The actuarial factors have not changed. Early retirement pensions will still be calculated on an act...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1217 (Link to this contribution) I interpret the position of the Prison Officers Association more positively, which is why I did not ...

Lilian Greenwood | 537 c1215 (Link to this contribution) Large increases in pension contributions combined with a continuing pay freeze will lead to a severe...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1215 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree. That is one of the abiding reasons why both the hon. Lady's party and mine have so...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1215 (Link to this contribution) There is a squeeze on living standards and, indeed, on our economy for a combination of reasons, inc...

Gregg McClymont | 537 c1214 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary will be aware of the demanding and dangerous job done by prison officers up and ...

John Pugh | 537 c1214 (Link to this contribution) Should not something be done about the destructive polarisation of the public and private sectors th...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1214 (Link to this contribution) I join the hon. Gentleman in expressing gratitude for the hard work that prison officers do for the ...

Sheila Gilmore | 537 c1215 (Link to this contribution) Would not the negotiations have proceeded more quickly and smoothly had the Chief Secretary's party ...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1214-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree that, while we are securing very good pensions for public service workers, we must not negle...

Baroness Coffey | 537 c1215 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that following these reforms, lower-paid nurses, teachers and civil ...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1215 (Link to this contribution) Opposition Members seem to be making increasingly desperate attempts to find new ways of saying that...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1201-3 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the reform of public service pensio...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1214 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I have had any such indications so far, but I would, of course, welcome them if t...

Fiona Mactaggart | 537 c1214 (Link to this contribution) I am disappointed that despite a number of written questions from me and the questions put today, th...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1214 (Link to this contribution) Sadly, the answer to that question is that no such proposals whatsoever have been received.

Priti Patel | 537 c1214 (Link to this contribution) In light of the hard-line position taken by the PCS union, what indication has my right hon. Friend ...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1214 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for picking up on that point. We will certainly look at the impact on...

Chris Williamson | 537 c1213 (Link to this contribution) The truth is that this Government are indulging in a race to the bottom on pensions. The fact is tha...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1213 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I would accept the description of having time on my hands. The hon. Gentleman's p...

Christopher Pincher | 537 c1213-4 (Link to this contribution) Given that Lord Hutton has said that it is ““hard to imagine”” a better offer than the ““generous”” ...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1213 (Link to this contribution) I have to say that that is the most shameful scaremongering about what we are offering that I have h...

David Mowat | 537 c1213 (Link to this contribution) An inflation-proof pension of £20,000 a year taken at the age of 67 would cost about £500,000 to pur...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1209-10 (Link to this contribution) No one on the Treasury Bench wanted to see industrial action; in fact, the only people who seemed to...

Tony Lloyd | 537 c1209 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury's remarks about reaching a settlement through negoti...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1209 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give my hon. Friend a precise figure for the number of women workers who will benefit, but ...

Andrea Leadsom | 537 c1209 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate Ministers and the unions on this excellent settlement, particularly because of the wa...

Clive Betts | 537 c1209 (Link to this contribution) In regard to workers who are transferred to another organisation, can the Chief Secretary confirm th...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1209 (Link to this contribution) Yes, they will. I think that I can reassure the hon. Gentleman on all the points that he has made. W...

Simon Hughes | 537 c1208 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate Ministers and the trade union leaders on what is clearly a win for the taxpayer, a wi...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1208-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his words of praise. He makes an important point about the...

Anne Begg | 537 c1208 (Link to this contribution) Has the Chief Secretary made an estimate of the number of people who will opt out of their pension s...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1208 (Link to this contribution) For anyone who wishes to have a pension, these are among the best pensions available. It would be ri...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1208 (Link to this contribution) I think that there are 28 unions altogether, of which 26 have signed up to the agreement in principl...

John McDonnell | 537 c1207 (Link to this contribution) Is not the truth of the matter that even with this settlement, public sector workers will pay more, ...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1207 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to enter into any specific diplomatic disagreements of recent weeks, but my hon. Friend m...

Bob Blackman | 537 c1208 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend confirm the number of trade unions that have reached agreement, and tell u...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1208 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is wrong in everything he says. The fact that a coalition Government of Liberal D...

Rachel Reeves | 537 c1204-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Chief Secretary for his statement. Families and businesses who rely on public services, ...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1206-7 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that the hon. Lady was listening to anything that I said in my statement, because I ha...

Lord Tyrie | 537 c1207 (Link to this contribution) By far the most important point in this statement—the one that the Chief Secretary touched on only b...

Speaker | 537 c1203 (Link to this contribution) Order. The statement must be heard, and with courtesy.

Danny Alexander | 537 c1213 (Link to this contribution) I would have welcomed from the Scottish National party—as from the Labour Front-Bench team—a recogni...

Rob Wilson | 537 c1212 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Chief Secretary and indeed the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster Gene...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1212 (Link to this contribution) I do not know quite how disappointed my hon. Friend is, but I am certainly very disappointed in the ...

Andrew Miller | 537 c1211 (Link to this contribution) The underestimation of life expectancy that occurred in the 1970s and the pension holidays of the 19...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1211 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, which I am sure will have been heard by the Local Gover...

Damian Hinds | 537 c1212 (Link to this contribution) For purposes of comparison, what estimate has my right hon. Friend made of the proportion of new sta...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1212 (Link to this contribution) The number of new starters in the private sector who can look forward to a defined benefit scheme is...

Andrew Love | 537 c1212 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman now answer the earlier question about the level of opt-out likely to a...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1212 (Link to this contribution) At the start of the process, the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast opt-out rates resulting f...

Baroness Burt of Solihull | 537 c1211 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate everyone who has been involved in reaching the heads of agreement. This will give har...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1211 (Link to this contribution) It is a matter for the trade unions to discuss their individual processes of engagement with their m...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1211 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her comments. It is an important point, on which I am glad to ha...

Nadhim Zahawi | 537 c1210 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the hard work that he has put into this process and the union...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1210 (Link to this contribution) The Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General tells me that there were 14 meetings in wh...

Jeremy Corbyn | 537 c1210 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary to the Treasury stop trying to demonise the PCS, and recognise that it is r...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1210 (Link to this contribution) I am very proud indeed that we have managed to achieve something that Members on both sides of the H...

Andrew Bingham | 537 c1210 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the Opposition claimed recently that the Government were imposing a 3% tax rise on the...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1210-1 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I am happy to confirm that. We set out at the beginning that no one earning less than £15,000 s...

John Healey | 537 c1211 (Link to this contribution) The 2 million public service staff who took action last month will note that the Government have giv...

Tom Blenkinsop | 537 c1217 (Link to this contribution) Will the Chief Secretary specify the actuarial reductions involved in all four pension schemes? Have...

Danny Alexander | 537 c1203-4 (Link to this contribution) Opposition Members never have any answers, so they chunter from the sidelines instead. At the same ...

Stewart Hosie | 537 c1212 (Link to this contribution) The Chief Secretary said of the civil service scheme: ““It is disappointing that the PCS and Unite h...

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Age Contributions Civil servants Civil service Increases Local government NHS Workplace pensions Pensions Public sector Pension rights Teachers Reform Retirement Uprating Consumer prices index

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