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Session
Year
Department
Member
Primary member
Answering member
Legislative stage
Legislation
Subject
Publisher
Type
Select Committee reports; House of Commons papers;
Parliamentary committees
Committee
Defence Committee
Notes
DEB;CH 8 JAN 2004; Received 16.12.03
Subjects
Compensation; Armed forces; Casualties; Injuries; Pensions; Ministry of Defence; Royal British Legion; Forces Pension Society
Date
10 December 2003
Reference
HC 96 2003/04
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what action he is taking to ensure that members of the armed forces are not affected by future pension troughs; what the outcome was of recent discussions between his Department and the Forces Pension Society on remedying the effects of the pensions...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what action he is taking to ensure that members of the armed forces are not affected by future pension troughs; what the outcome was of recent discussions between his Department and the Forces Pension Society on remedying the effects of the pensions...
Asked by
Lord Cotter
(Liberal Democrat)
Answered by
Ivor Caplin
(Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
27 November 2003
For answer on
3 December 2003
Answered on
3 December 2003
Brian Cotter: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what action he is taking to ensure that members of the armed forces are
not affected by future pension troughs; [141641]
(2) what the outcome was of recent discussions between his Department and the Forces Pension Society on remedying the effects of the
pensions trough affecting Service personnel between 1976 and 1978. [141640]
Mr. Caplin: I met Air Chief Marshal Sir Roger Palin and Major General James Gordon from the Forces Pension Society (FPS) on 19
November 2003. During our discussions, I recognised the strength of feeling among those ex-Service personnel affected by pension
troughs and the Society's concern that a remedy should be found for this. However, after careful consideration of the matter, I
informed the Society that I did not intend to revisit this issue. The cost of uplifting only future payments of those affected by
the mid-1970s trough would be very substantial and it would be impossible to avoid extending any change to those, whether in the
armed forces or more widely, affected by other pensions troughs. It has been the policy of successive Governments that it would not
be appropriate to make retrospective change to pension entitlements.
For the future, and reflecting the Society's concerns, Service personnel who become members of the new Armed Forces Pension Scheme
will be less exposed to the effects of any periods of pay restraint and high inflation because their pensions will be based on their
best earnings in the last three years of Service, with earlier years' earnings up-rated for inflation.
Subjects
Armed forces; Pensions; Forces Pension Society
Date
3 December 2003
Reference
415 c67-8W; 141641;141640
House
House of Commons
Type
House of Commons papers; Select Committee oral evidence;
Parliamentary committees
Committee
Defence Committee
Notes
Received 09.04.02
Subjects
Compensation; Armed forces; Pensions; Royal British Legion; Forces Pension Society
Commons Library location
CS 873
Date
6 March 2002
Reference
HC 666-i 2001/02
House
House of Commons